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Two day workshop How do you change a destructive
conflict situation? You could tell everyone to behave better or you could
ask them to read a book on conflict. If you want real change, you need
something that will catch their attention and demonstrate the options
everyone has in a conflict situation. Our workshop combines lecture,
discussion, experience and presentations into a high energy two days where
people observe, learn and remember. Workshop Overview We start the Conflict GaugeTM to demonstrate where your team is right now now. Are people defensive or are they open to challenging ideas? Somewhere between defensive and constructive behavior is traditional conflict resolution and conflict management. Conflict management is about toning things down. Thriving is about getting things out in the open in a constructive way so more work gets done more effectively. Next, we do an individual activity where each participant completes the Life Styles Inventory - ConflictTM assessment to show which of the 12 patterns he or she tends to follow in a conflict situation. We then develop strategies for shifting attention to constructive patterns. Moving from the individual to the group, we do a sub arctic survival exercise where a situation is presented in a video and each team has to agree on a course of action. After reaching agreement, we do another assessment, this time using the Group Styles InventoryTM which measures the degree of constructive and defensive behavior demonstrated during the exercise. Once again, we discuss alternate strategies. On the second day we do a group construction exercise and complete the Group Styles InventoryTM a second time. We see positive change from the first exercise and this encourages participants to continue their own skill development. After the exercises it is time to do some digging into the written material. We break into small groups to discuss specific defensive styles and then do presentations to the entire group. Usually, we gain new insights into each style because people use their own experiences, bringing the material to life. |
