OasisLMS

Conflict, defined as the willingness to have and resolve disagreements resulting in the highest quality outcomes that lead to high performance has been, and continues to be, a major challenge for most organizations. To help assess your, and your organizations, strengths and weaknesses regarding having and resolving conflict evaluate both against the key “Supportive Skills and Behaviors of Conflict” and the key “Harmful Skills and Behaviors”.

If you or your organization are comfortable with conflict these supportive skills and behaviors are regularly practiced:

• Leadership realizes that disagreement is to be encouraged and embraced from any and all levels and is the fuel that drives rapid change, new ideas, creativity and innovation
• Employees are comfortable to express disagreement to any and all levels in an assertive manner 
• Employees understand the process and skill of resolving disagreements that result in the highest quality outcomes with support by all
• When issues/problems occur, people address them quickly focusing on the solution not the problem or person
• Diverse viewpoints (disagreements) are seen as an opportunity to produce higher quality decisions

If you or your organization are uncomfortable with conflict these harmful skills and behaviors occur regularly:

• Leadership views disagreement as a threat therefore it is discouraged, or worse, punished
• Dominant employees “win” disagreements using real or perceived power silencing potential solutions 
• Employees disagree silently then undermine or sabotage the outcome (give in then get even) 
• Employees avoid disagreements for fear of reprimands resulting in slow change and stagnation 
• Daily mistakes and errors are not reported (or are covered up) resulting in regular negative surprises 
• Front line employees become aware of problems and/or customer dissatisfaction but say nothing

If either you or your organization fall short when assessing the critical skills and competencies of conflict management and resolution do not dismay; most organizations struggle with this issue. Fortunately there is good news; there are defined and observable skills and behaviors that drive fast changing, innovative and customer focused organizations that can be learned and practiced that result in high performance.

To address the “skills and competencies gaps” we have designed a dynamic and interactive workshop that is appropriate for individual contributors and all levels of management. The focus, objectives and outcomes of this workshop are:

• Assessing and understanding your individual and most comfortable methods of resolving conflict 
• Learn when to use each method of conflict resolution and understand the ramifications of each method 
• Learn to use conflict as a source of personal energy and creativity 
• Understand the importance of effective communication skills that ensure no ambiguity while holding everyone accountable 
• Realize the importance of Assertive behavior and how to practice it to achieve high performance “win-win” outcomes 
• Learn the importance of active listening, probing effectively to understand the “real” issues and demonstrating empathy 
• Learn the process of “team decision making” that results in the highest quality decisions with buyin from all members 
• Understand that creating a culture of blame and criticism is the “cancer” that destroys effective conflict management and resolution 
• Gain a greater understanding of how and why conflict occurs 
• How to prepare and conduct difficult conflict resolution discussions

• The session will be delivered on the Zoom platform so all participants will work from their own workspace and use their own computer. Zoom has video capability but, if the participant’s computer is not equipped with a camera, audio will also work. 
• Participants should enter the Zoom training room at least 15 minutes (8:45 AM) before the start time.  

Please note that this course is from a third-party vendor, The Carroll-Keller Group. If you cancel less than 7 days in advance of the session, fees are nonrefundable. We strongly recommend registering no later than 24 hours before the course begins. Please contact Sue Malan if you do not receive the event logistics via email at least 24 hours before the course begins: smalan@c-kg.com or 630-495-0505. Thank you.