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Conflict Management at Work: Real World Strategies & Tools

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Conflict Management at Work: Real World Strategies & Tools

A Practical Introduction to Workplace Conflict Management for Managers and Supervisors

updated on icon Updated on Jun, 2025

language icon Language - English

person icon Mike Clayton

English [CC]

category icon Business,Human Resources,Conflict Management

Lectures -24

Resources -1

Duration -1 hours

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Course Description

Conflict is an inevitable part of working life. And it's not always bad.

But, often, it is. It can be stressful, harm productivity, spoil working relationships, and lead to damaging behaviors.

And, if you have any level of responsibility as a team leader, supervisor, or manager, fixing it may well be down to you.

As a manager or a leader, conflict management is a part of your job!

So you need the tools to deal with conflict at work.
And this course will give you them.

More than that, you'll learn how and why conflict arises, and how to minimize it before it takes hold.

Here are the main conflict management topics you'll cover:

  • The sources of conflict

  • How to listen

  • The effect of personalities on conflict

  • The ways people resist imposed ideas

  • The signs and stages of conflict escalation

  • The steps for de-escalating conflict

  • Strategies for resolving conflict

  • Five ways to handle conflict 

  • How to recover a broken (workplace) relationship

Ongoing Project: Your Conflict Log
During the course, your project will be to keep and share aspects of your Conflict Log. You will create a record of your observations, successes, and struggles. Other students and your tutor will support you, endorse your successes, and help you with your questions.  

Prior Experience
The only prior experience you need is daily life. If you’ve been a hermit or in long-term peaceful coexistence with all your fellow human beings, you won’t need this course.

  However, the people who may find this most valuable are those who experience conflict in the workplace, and especially those in supervisory or management roles. 

Your Tutor
Your tutor is Dr. Mike Clayton. As a senior manager at international consulting firm, Deloitte, Mike had to deal with conflict among staff, and with clients, and even among clients. But more important, as a senior representative of his firm and a program leader, he needed to avoid escalation of conflict.

Now, as a trainer and facilitator, he has been applying what he learned and teaching it to others. This course represents 15 years' experience of what tools students find most helpful, and 25 years experience in business, managing conflicts large and small.

We have you covered
However, it's not all been plain sailing. Three times in 25 years, Mike has had to use his own 'Breakdown Routine' to the breakdown of a professional relationship. Three times it worked. And managers and leaders he has coached have used it with equal success.

So, you see, we have you covered. This course will give you the tools to:

  • Prevent conflict

  • Reduce and reverse its escalation

  • Handle full blown conflict

  • and... recover from the effects of a conflict-induced relationship breakdown.

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Enroll for this course now, so you can start to regain control of your life straight away.

Who this course is for:

  • Managers and supervisors at all levels

Goals

  • Recognize the signs of conflict early, so you have a chance to stop it
  • Reduce the incidence of conflict, by listening well
  • Understand how conflict escalates, so you can stay calm and stop the escalation
  • De-escalate conflict, so you bring your relationship back to normal
  • Resolve conflict, using a variety of strategies and tactics
  • Develop your resistance to being drawn into conflict

Prerequisites

  • No pre-requisites. If you're in the world of work, or soon to enter it, you're ready for this course.
Conflict Management at Work: Real World Strategies & Tools

Curriculum

Check out the detailed breakdown of what’s inside the course

Introduction to Your Conflict Management Course

3 Lectures
  • play icon Conflict Management Promo 02:27 02:27
  • play icon Welcome to the Course 02:55 02:55
  • play icon What are Conflict and Conflict Management? 03:08 03:08

Understand the Keys to Conflict

3 Lectures
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How Misunderstandings Arise... and the Solution

3 Lectures
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Personality Types in Conflict

3 Lectures
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Escalation of Conflict

3 Lectures
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De-escalating Conflict

6 Lectures
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Closing Section

2 Lectures
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Instructor Details

Mike Clayton

Mike Clayton

  Dr Mike Clayton is a business trainer, author and speaker. Since 2002, he has been helping professionals, managers and leaders to excel in their roles with management, leadership, and personal effectiveness training. 

        Mike has written over a dozen books for major publishers like Wiley, Macmillan and Pearson, including: Powerhouse, How to Manage a Great Project, How to Speak so People Listen, Brilliant Time Management, and The Influence Agenda. 

        Mike's professional background is 12 years as a project management professional with the London office of international management consultancy Deloitte. Prior to that, Mike had an academic career in Physics, working at the world renowned Schuster Laboratory of The University of Manchester.

Mike currently has 14 courses on Tutorialspoint, with a long list of successful seminars and training courses to convert into video format.

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