Title: Apply strategies for conflict resolution.
Course: Life Planning (19257-36) > Section: Creating and Maintaining Healthy Relationships

Application should include

- stating the problem clearly
- listening to positions and interests of others
- identifying and presenting positions and interests
- brainstorming possible solutions
- eliminating solutions that are unacceptable
- choosing a solution that represents a consensus
- making a plan of action to resolve the problem.

Process/Skill Questions:

Thinking

- What causes conflict? What strategies could be used to prevent and resolve conflicts?
- What is the desired outcome when a problem arises?

Communication

- How does communication affect the generation and resolution of conflict?
- Where do you acquire your attitude toward conflict and conflict resolution?
- How might this attitude affect your ability to resolve conflicts?

Leadership

- What conflict-resolution strategies can leaders use when dealing with friends? With family members? In meetings? At work?
- How can leaders prevent the escalation of conflict?
- How might conflict and the resolution of conflict affect group goals?

Management

- Why is it important to resolve conflict?
- What are the benefits of using various methods of conflict resolution?