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Conflict Responses

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A workshop for a team to reflect on past conflicts, and use them to generate guidelines for effective conflict handling. The workshop uses the Thomas-Killman model of conflict responses to frame a reflective discussion. Use it to open up a discussion around conflict with a team.

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Goal

As a team to reflect on past conflicts, and use them to generate guidelines for effective conflict handling

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    Instructions

    Step 1:

    Ask participants to think about team conflicts that they’ve experienced. These can be from within or outside this current team, and within our outside the organisation.

    They should do this individually, identifying as many significant conflicts as possible, going back a few years if they need to. Writing them in their notepads.

    Facilitator's notes: If people are bringing in examples from outside the team, encourage them to leave specific names out when describing conflicts, to preserve confidentiality.


    Step 2:

    Taking the historical conflicts that they've written down, ask them as individuals to rank each one from 1 to 3.

    • 1 = Conflict I handled well
    • 2 = Conflict I handled so-so
    • 3 = Conflict I handled poorly


    Step 3:

    Introduce the Thomas-Killman model for managing conflict to the group. To support the explanation you could show them a video, or use materials from your own toolbox or elsewhere online.

    Ask them to reflect individually, then discuss their reflections in pairs or threes on the following questions:

    • Which responses were exhibited during the conflicts I identified?
    • What behaviours and actions were effective at resolving the conflicts?
    • What behaviours and actions were not effective at resolving the conflicts?


    Step 4:

    Based on the reflections in the small groups, ask each person come up with 2-3 guidelines for effective conflict handling that they think the group should follow from now on.

    Ask everyone to share their guidelines with the whole group and agree on a set that everyone is happy to follow.

    Write the guidelines up and share them digitally.

    Background

    Source: Hyper Island toolbox

    Hyper Island designs learning experiences that challenge companies and individuals to grow and stay competitive in an increasingly digitized world. With clients such as Google, adidas and IKEA, Hyper Island has been listed by CNN as one of the most innovative schools in the world.

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