50 Activities for Conflict Resolution

This collection of activities, self-assessments, and exercises is especially useful as a resource to introduce the issue of conflict and its resolution as a part of workshops on management, leadership, communication, negotiation and diversity.

The book is fully reproducible and flexibly organized in two sections. Part One includes twenty-five interactive group learning activities to explore conflict and provide practice in skills that help to resolve it. Part Two consists of twenty-five individualized exercises and assessments that are ideal for pre-work prior to group training sessions, or they can be distributed to participants for their own self-development. All of the activities and assessments are reproducible and include participant materials and notes for the instructor.

About the Authors

Jonamay Lambert, M.A., co-author of seven trainers' guides in the Diversity at Work Training Series, and 50 Activities for Diversity Training, is well known throughout the human resources field for her training and development methodology. Founder and president of Lambert and Associates, she has designed and implemented training programs related to diversity leadership and change management for corporate, governmental, and educational organizations, including many Fortune 100 companies.

Prior to forming Lambert and Associates in 1987, she was principal of PACE, a not-for-profit institution, and received a three-year grant to develop a multicultural curriculum for prison system educators. Ms. Lambert received a master's degree in counseling from Northeastern University and an undergraduate degree in education from Indiana University after studying in Europe and the Middle East. She is the author of ten train'ers guides about diversity used in more than 1,000 national and international organizations.

Selma Myers, M.A., a trained and experienced mediator, has been engaged in alternative dispute resolution since 1983. In addition, as an international consultant, she is president of Intercultural Development, a California company specializing in communication and intercultural training.

As the co-author of ten traniners' guides in the Diversity at Work trainer's series, and 50 Activities for Diversity Training, she has also written additional guides and handbooks, linking the subject of Alternative Dispute Resolution to intercultural training.

Ms. Meyers helped found, and was a director of, the American Language Institute at San Diego State University, where she administered programs for foreign students and businessmen.

Meyers was a visiting lecturer in residence at the Beijing Institute of Technology; recipient of a Senior Fulbright Consulting Grant in South America; and a Summer Teaching Fellow at Harvard University. Her clients have included Fortune 500 organizations, not-for-profit, government agencies and other areas of business.