Handling Team Conflict


Overview/Description
Target Audience
Prerequisites
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
Course Number
Expertise Level



Overview/Description
Successful teams are characterized by having a clear direction, trust among team members, effective communication, and a clear process for managing team conflict. The survival of a team depends on a leader who can quickly recognize team conflict, diagnose its cause, and implement conflict resolution strategies. In this course, you'll learn about what causes conflict on a team and the important role of healthy communication in handling conflict. You'll discover best practice approaches to dealing with conflict. You’ll also explore the tenets of principled negotiation in managing conflict. Finally, you'll learn guidelines for resolving conflict that address one specific type of conflict: lack of trust.

Target Audience
All levels of employees that lead and manage teams; anyone wishing to develop and refine their leadership skills in a team environment.

Prerequisites
None

Expected Duration (hours)
0.5

Lesson Objectives

Handling Team Conflict

  • match causes of conflict with examples of the effect each has on a team
  • recognize examples of resolving conflict through improved communication
  • match conflict resolution techniques with circumstances in which they would be used
  • identify which collaborative conflict resolution technique should be used in a given scenario
  • recognize examples of the rules of principled negotiation
  • recall techniques for resolving trust issues in a team meeting
  • identify the recommended contents of a guideline for maintaining trust on a team
  • use techniques to resolve conflict among members of your team
  • Course Number:
    atm_01_a04_bs_enus

    Expertise Level
    Everyone