Conflict Resolution in the Workplace
by Stephen Haunts
In this course, we aim to help you identify conflict before it turns into a crisis and provide some practical tools to help you stop conflict before it goes too far.
What you'll learn
The aim of this course is for you to be able to identify and deal with conflict before a crisis occurs. This course is suitable for anyone that works in a team environment, whether you are a manager or not. The course has five main objectives: to identify the different stages of conflict and describe what happens at each stage, to explore your own relationship with conflict and how it can affect performance, to learn how to stop conflict from escalating and move both parties to agreement, to determine your natural style for dealing with conflict, and to understand the process for using negotiation and/or mediation for resolving conflict.
About the author
Stephen Haunts is an experienced Software Developer and Leader who has worked across multiple business domains including Computer Games, Finance, and Healthcare Retail and Distribution. Stephen has worked in languages ranging from Assembler, various forms of BASIC, to C and C++, and then finding his love of C# and .NET.
Stephen also runs a Software Development and Leadership blog called {Coding in the Trenches} which can be read at http://www.stephenhaunts.com . Stephen also runs a small music ... morelabel and sound design company where he also developed the site and content management system.
As well as blogging, and running software teams for large companies, Stephen also runs some open source projects on CodePlex including SafePad - an encrypted text editor, Text Shredder - an encrpyted messaging tool, and Smoke Tester - a post deployment verification testing framework.