Handling Team Conflict

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 the ability to quickly resolve conflict. The survival of a team depends on a team leader who can quickly recognize conflict, diagnose its cause, and use strategies to resolve the issue. 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 also learn about best practice approaches to resolving conflict and the tenets of principled negotiation. Finally, you'll learn guidelines for addressing one type of team 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