Conflict Resolution Foundations (50 minutes)

• • Improve your relationships with your coworkers, clients, and managers and find your way through conflict back to cooperation. In this course, negotiation and leadership coach Lisa Gates shares the secrets of effective conflict resolution and reveals simple, repeatable techniques that apply in most business situations. She presents "The Resolution Roadmap," a practical framework for exploring and navigating conflict resolution, including identifying the issue and distinguishing fact from fiction. A scenario helps take you through best practices for opening the conflict conversation, brainstorming solutions, and coming to an agreement. In addition, she shares powerful conflict resolution techniques that can help you enhance your listening skills and reframe problems to find common ground.

How to Resolve Conflicts (52 minutes)

• • This course provides the tools you need to identify conflict and chart a course to resolution. Instructor TJ Guttormsen introduces the art of de-escalation—how to mutually move from conflict to cooperation and reconciliation. He provides three basic rules to help you navigate conflict, helps you identify underlying causes, and explains how sticking to “I-statements” and avoiding absolutes can help diffuse almost any charged situation. In chapter two, he provides a step-by-step process for conducting a conflict resolution conversation. Follow along for real-world tips, tricks, and techniques to help you become a conflict resolution expert—and make sure to download the free guide in the exercise files to keep on hand for real-world situations.

Communicating through Disagreement (41 minutes)

• • Think about a time when you disagreed or fought with another person. What was the outcome? How did it make you feel? More likely than not, you've found yourself in disagreements that didn't get resolved or that left you with a bad feeling. In this course, conflict resolution expert Lynne Hurdle shares her methods to ensure you're able to effectively communicate through disagreements and achieve your intended outcomes. Lynne covers how to prepare yourself to participate in this conversation, effectively listen, manage your emotions, and achieve mutual understanding and agreement. She also shares how to avoid common pitfalls when it comes to things like venting or talking over one another. Lynne also gives examples of individuals who really excel at communication through disagreement, and how they do it. Finally, Lynne empowers you with tips to manage disagreements and conflict more effectively, and gives resources to help you continue your learning over time.

Mistakes to Avoid When Resolving Conflict (39 minutes)

• • • Conflict is inevitable. When it's time to resolve conflicts, you need to be equipped with the best tools and tactics. In this course, conflict expert Lynne Hurdle shows you how to avoid common mistakes when resolving conflict. Lynne shares ways listening can be difficult and explains how to listen effectively. She goes over how to avoid judgement and respond appropriately, then concludes with ways to overcome common obstacles and resolve conflicts.

How to Handle Conflict and Escalations Before They Turn Legal (38 minutes)

• • Did you know you have the power to fix customer service problems before they ever stand the chance of turning legal? In this course, join instructor Dana Robinson and explore the essential skills of satisfying, delighting, and retaining your clients and customers following the principles of escalation management. From top executives to operational managers, front-line employees, and customer service representatives, your business requires you to address customer grievances every day, so why not build resolutions into your business process? Get tips from Dana on dealing with conflict before it turns legal, saving you the time, money, labor, and emotional friction that can result from unhappy clients and customers. Along the way, learn how to deactivate emotionally charged clients to move through complex, multilayered de-escalations. By the end of this course, you’ll be ready to start asking the right questions and listening actively to resolve customer complaints.

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