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Begin your journey with a welcome to conflict management and mediation, setting expectations and introducing the course's focus on resolving disputes through practical mediation skills.
Explore the nature of conflict as an expressed struggle between two interdependent parties with incompatible goals and scarce resources, and learn how communication and perception drive conflict management and mediation.
Explore the nature of conflict and its mediation within the conflict management & mediation certificate program, using the lecture title to frame clear, concise concepts.
Explore how genetics and environment shape behavior, from prenatal influences to cultural norms. Learn how culture, language, and norms affect perception, conflict, and diagnosis.
Explore major perspectives in psychology to understand conflict through different lenses. Examine attachment styles - anxious/preoccupied, avoidant/dismissive, disorganized, and secure - and review trait theory and the big five.
Explore the major models and psychological perspectives shaping modern psychology, from structuralism and behaviorism to cognitive neuroscience and positive psychology, and examine levels of analysis.
Explore attachment styles and perspectives to navigate conflict in mediation settings. Learn how personal viewpoints shape responses and improve conflict management strategies.
Explore Cattell's theory of personality development and the big five, within the context of conflict management and mediation.
Explore how motivation, achievement, and brain chemistry influence goal setting, identify types of interests and goals, and explain how goals change in interaction to enhance negotiation in conflict.
Explore how interests and goals drive conflict, focusing on incompatible goals, perceived interference, and the interdependence of parties with common and disparate aims.
Analyze a fragmented dialogue that highlights interests and goals within conflict management and mediation, using terse prompts like and, Susan, oh, do, most to frame discussion.
Set goals, boost motivation, and advance achievement within the framework of conflict management and mediation.
Explore power as a core concept in conflict theory, analyze the structure of conflict, and learn to balance real and perceived power through constructive, assertive approaches.
Explore power in conflict, including imbalances, passive aggression, and assertion. Assess and rebalance power for constructive conflict using power theories.
Explore power structure in conflict management and mediation, illustrated by the caption fragments and the name Susan: and, oh, far, do, most.
Identify passive-aggressive behavior in conflicts and understand its role in conflict management and mediation. Apply insights to improve communication and resolution in sensitive situations.
Identify your conflict style and patterns. Explore how personal characteristics, life experiences, and family background shape preferences, take a conflict quiz, and learn rules of effective communication in relationships.
Explore the five conflict styles—avoiding, accommodating, dominating, integrating, and compromising. See how personal context and perception shape style choices and bias.
Explore effective communication in relationships to master conflict management and mediation skills that improve understanding, reduce misunderstandings, and strengthen relational trust.
Explore violence and aggression in conflict and apply mediation strategies to manage disputes with practical, straightforward techniques.
Explore how emotions influence conflict and how to transform them for constructive resolution, identify emotion types, compare theories of emotion, and cultivate positive emotions to increase happiness.
Explore how emotions influence conflict and transform disputes through empathy, emotional regulation, and mindful self-responsibility.
Explore emotions and happiness within conflict management and mediation, using the lecture title as the guide to understanding emotional aspects in dispute contexts.
Analyze conflicts using a structural, systematic approach with a systems theory lens, recognizing interlocking sequences and avoiding blame, and identify comprehensive guides and differences in conflict analysis.
Learn to analyze conflict as a system of relations by distinguishing macro and micro level dynamics, using comprehensive assessment guides to ask questions and improve decision making.
Analyze conflict and systems theory to inform effective mediation and conflict management strategies for a certificate of completion.
Define bullying and its types, examine power imbalances between aggressors and victims, and recognize bully characteristics across childhood, cyber, workplace, sexual harassment, and sexual assault contexts.
Master practical conflict management and mediation techniques to address bullying with clear, actionable strategies for resolving disputes and promoting constructive communication.
Explore interpersonal negotiation as settling disputes through discussion and mutual agreement, with competitive and integrative approaches, and identify key terms, strategic behaviors, stages, and representative negotiation issues.
Explore negotiation as the process of ethical influence to achieve win-win outcomes, using self and others' knowledge, information analysis, and effective behavior.
Explore negotiation styles within conflict management and mediation, and learn to identify different approaches to reach effective resolutions.
Explore reconciliation and forgiveness as paths to restore interpersonal relationships after destructive conflicts, contrasting with retribution and highlighting the layers of communication, moral orientation, personal factors, and mediation advantages.
Explore reconciliation and forgiveness to inform interpersonal conflict and conflict resolution, and learn to heal past wounds while navigating scenarios of betrayal, abandonment, and difficult disclosures.
Explore strategies for reconciliation and forgiveness within conflict management and mediation, applying practical techniques to resolve disputes and restore relationships.
Examine mediation and third-party intervention within conflict management to identify effective approaches to resolving disputes.
Conflict is the disagreement or difference of opinions between or among individuals that can be potentially harmful to any organization. In the workplace setting, it often involves personal agendas, insights, or goals versus the agendas, insights, or goals of the group or team. Conflict management seeks to resolve the disagreement or conflict with positive outcomes that satisfy all individuals involved or is beneficial to the group. However, the perception of conflict is often negative.
Conflict can, in fact, be positive if it is managed properly. Conflict can promote team-building skills, critical thinking, new ideas, and alternative resolutions. Conflict management is a crucial competency that leaders must possess, for the success of the team, group, unit, or employees they lead.
Course Description: This course is designed to offer students opportunities to understand common causes of conflicts, and build techniques and skills in conflict management. The course teaches students the theoretical underpinnings causing disputes among parties. It emphasizes building partnerships and long-term positive relationships in one’s career and personal life. Students will investigate the theory and practice of using power, assessing conflict, improving communication techniques in problem solving with regards to appropriate strategies, tactics and goals in conflict resolution. This course will also focus on mediation skills, and students will have an opportunity to practice conflict management strategies to solve actual conflicts.