Conflict is a necessary part of professional discourse.
To get a full, robust understanding of a task, we need to bring our differences: differences in thought, expertise, life experience, style, strategy, sensitivity, perspective, identity, and more. When we bring those differences successfully, disagreements arise. To bridge these differences, we need to engage conflict effectively.
In this bundle, you get two conflict-related resources for less than the cost of purchasing both individually:
Learn More About Your Own Approach to Conflict
Investigate your own way with conflict through a conflict mode assessment: the Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Inventory (TKI).
The Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Inventory (TKI) is a simple but powerful tool for identifying your habitual reactions to conflict and identifying new approaches, strategies, and perspectives. This shortcourse provides context for the TKI and supports integration. The shortcourse also includes an optional discussion forum where you can learn what others are gaining from this material.
Take this shortcourse to gain access to the TKI, its 11-page report, and resources for integrating these important insights.
Then Investigate How to Work with Conflict in Discussions
As noted above, conflict reveals differences that can be a fertile source of insight in group discussions and deliberation. Effective group decision-making relies on these differences in expertise, experience, and concerns. Too often, however, we shy away from conflict or get embroiled in it.
Take this course to see conflict in a new light and identify concrete strategies for approaching conflict through “slow thought” situational analysis, applied self-awareness, and conscious response. Improve your contributions to meetings, teams, and committee work and decrease the likelihood that such discussions flounder and fail.
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