
Identify what conflict is and explore its downsides and positive outcomes, then examine six common workplace conflicts: interdependence, leadership, work style, personality, discrimination or harassment, and creative idea conflicts.
Explore the downsides of conflict, such as positioning and avoidance, and learn to handle conflict for four benefits: better outcomes, learning opportunities, improved relationships, and higher job satisfaction.
Identify your conflict style by answering questions about fighting versus accommodating, reactions, upbringing, and norms. Use feedback and tools like Myers-Briggs or Thomas Kilmann to adapt at home or work.
Explore how avoider and seeker conflict styles interact and how to manage each pairing with direct requests, patience, and strategic breaks.
Analyze a specific conflict by understanding your counterpart, identify four types of conflict—relationship, task, process, and status—and clarify goals and options.
Identify your ultimate goal in a workplace conflict, seek overlap with the other party, then choose one of four options—do nothing, address indirectly, address directly, or exit the relationship.
Prepare for the conversation by aligning your mindset, anticipating your counterpart’s perspective, and listing questions to ask. Plan the message strategically and logistically with the right time and private setting.
Frame the issue and set a collaborative tone, listen actively, manage emotions, and articulate your viewpoint while inviting joint problem-solving to resolve workplace conflicts.
Explore what a resolution looks like in workplace conflict: a fair, reasonable solution that satisfies interests, is defensible to others, and leaves the relationship intact, with a fair process.
use creativity and collaboration to generate options that meet both sides' needs, brainstorm together, and give back where needed to build a better relationship and positive workplace culture.
If the work team that I manage does not have any kind of conflict, what does this mean? It means, sir, that you have a big problem, which is that the relationship of the work team has turned into a very rigid companionship, and in this case you will have a problem, namely that they will compliment each other and run against each other at the expense of work.
No one has any objection that the work team is the most important component of any successful project, regardless of the size of the project and its capital. Despite this, many of us neglect how to manage the work teams and walk them randomly or even according to his whim.
Conflict is everywhere and it is impossible to avoid conflicting viewpoints. However, not all conflict is bad, nor is it inherently negative. How conflict is handled makes all the difference. It is through proper identification and understanding of conflict that allows for effective resolutions, some of which may yield positive outcomes. In this course, we will examine the different types of conflict, how to understand and embrace the positive aspects of conflict, and how to successfully navigate conflict to positive resolution.
Outcomes
After completing this course, you will be able to:
Illustrate the positive aspects of conflict
Provide examples of positive ways to deal with conflict
Use active listening skills when dealing with conflict
Choose appropriate communication tactics when dealing with conflict
Create a usable plan for managing conflict
Audience:
Managers
CEOs
Business owners
Entrepreneurs