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Training Modules

Communication and Conflict

  • Conflict as opportunity
  • Conflict styles
  • Skills for successful communication
    • Listening
    • Questioning
    • Body language
    • Reflective listening and reframing
    • High risk response
    • Giving and receiving feedback
    • Self-talk
    • Appropriate assertiveness

 

Building Effective Teams

  • Trust
  • Characteristics of good teams
  • Elements of team building
  • Model for sustaining teams
  • Goal clarification
  • Decision making
  • Cooperative power

 

International Conflict Resolution

  • Cross-national negotiation styles
  • Stages of international organizations
  • Power and international conflict resolution

 

ADR Systems Design

  • Overview of ADR Approaches
  • Existing dispute systems
  • Design concerns
  • Boundaries & scope
  • Measurement
  • Strategic map

 

Fundamentals of Mediation

  • Mediation Overview
    • Stages
    • Steps in the mediation process
    • Co-mediation

 

Culture and Conflict

  • Cross-culture negotiating
  • Culture and the way you work
  • Mediation of intercultural disputes
  • Pacific cross-cultural conflict
    • Cultural frame of reference
    • Approaches for conflict interactions
    • Interaction style
    • Physical arrangements

 

Strategic planning

  • Define organizational roles
  • Visioning
  • Building mission and goals
  • Develop plans for action

 

Fundamentals of Facilitation

  • Basic principles of facilitation
  • Facilitating phases
    • Designing and managing processes
    • Preparing
    • Joint problem-solving
  • A range of applications for facilitation
  • Recording and group graphics
  • Dealing with difficult people

 

Gender, Conflict and Conflict Resolution

  • Male & female communication styles
  • Perception & gender stereotyping
  • Men & women in organizations
  • Communicating across genders
  • Constructive conflict resolution

 

Fundamentals of Negotiation

  • Methods of negotiation
  • Principled negotiation
  • Planning and preparations for negotiations
  • Strategies for integrative bargaining
  • Problem-solving