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Responding to Conflict: Creating Resolution and Cooperation

Course: 904   Type: RealityPlus   Duration: 3 Days
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You Will Learn How To

  • Effectively handle conflict using a powerful conflict resolution method
  • Anticipate the causes of conflict and respond proactively
  • Manage strong emotions in a conflict situation
  • Remove barriers to cooperation
  • Create productive outcomes and reach a final agreement
  • Embrace conflict as an opportunity for team and organisational growth

Course Benefits
Workplace conflict has an impact on more than the individual--it creates a ripple effect, the repercussions of which are felt throughout the team and the organisation. In this course, you are fully engaged in realistic work scenarios in which you gain practical experience recognising causes behind interpersonal conflict, targeting emotional triggers that create conflict, and applying proven techniques and strategies to build an environment of cooperation.

Who Should Attend
Managers, business professionals, and anyone interested in productive solutions to conflict in the workplace.

RealityPlus
Experiential activities, which include role-playing and video scenarios, allow you to simulate real-world situations and practise the skills presented throughout the course. Activities include:
  • Diagnosing the conflict
  • Identifying your "hot buttons"
  • Developing emotional mastery
  • Using effective body language
  • Enabling productive conflict in teams
  • Articulating what the other person wants
  • Creating rapport with other people
  • Defusing angry situations
  • Beginning the conversation safely
  • Identifying shared interests with active listening
  • Taking different points of view
  • Creating a shared vision
  • Building your personal action plan

Course Content
Anatomy of a Conflict
  • Defining conflict
  • The stages of conflict
  • Focusing on a collaborative approach
  • Balancing results vs. relationships
  • A new way of looking at conflict
Investigating the Causes of Conflict
Why we fight
  • Underlying sources of conflict
  • Exposing the needs that feed conflict
  • Triggers and emotional "hot buttons"
  • Dealing with powerful emotions
Conflict in teams
  • Recognising conflict as a natural part of team development
  • Enabling productive conflict in teams
Taking First Steps Toward Resolution
Defining the conflict resolution model
  • The life cycle of a conflict: the build-up and the resolution
  • Introducing the 6-step model for resolving conflict
Managing your emotions
  • Applying a powerful emotional mastery model
  • Exploring your thoughts, feelings and beliefs
  • Acknowledging the value of your perspective
  • Determining your desired outcome
  • Expressing what you truly want
Unlocking the power of body language
  • Reading other people's body language
  • Using effective body language
  • Matching body language with the intended message
Setting the Foundation for Cooperation
Diagnosing the conflict
  • Applying the process model
  • Asking the right questions
  • Identifying key factors
  • Articulating the true cause
  • Choosing alternate conflict resolution strategies
Establishing a collaborative environment
  • Setting the stage for success
  • Removing barriers to conversation
  • Making it safe to cooperate
  • Dealing with negative emotions
  • Opening the dialogue
Defusing an angry situation
  • Why we get angry
  • Working for a positive outcome
  • How to remain calm when they're not
  • What managers and employees can do
Resolving the Conflict
Creating the connection
  • Establishing rapport
  • Achieving powerful results with active listening
  • Taking different perspectives
  • Hearing both sides of the story
  • Identifying shared interests
Working out the resolution
  • Exploring options
  • Short-term and long-term solutions
  • Imagining a more cooperative future
  • Creating a shared vision
Formalising the agreement
  • Why write it down?
  • Defining the agreement
  • Committing to resolution
  • Holding one another accountable
  • Establishing follow-up procedures
  • What if it doesn't work?
Achieving Positive Results
Putting it all together
  • Resolving interpersonal and organisational conflicts from build-up to resolution
  • Working in teams to resolve conflict using the 6-step process
Creating a personal action plan
  • Identifying immediate action items
  • Resolving conflict back at the office
  • Committing to a collaborative outlook
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Responding to Conflict
Course Schedule
16 - 18 Jul, 2008
London
22 - 24 Oct, 2008
London
28 - 30 Jan, 2009
London
 
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£ 1,395 - Standard Tuition
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