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Managing conflict and giving feedback are among the most challenging tasks leaders face. In this course, you'll discover how to effectively handle a dispute while preserving and strengthening relationships. You'll also learn how to give and receive effective feedback that can help you—and your team—succeed. Find out how to build trust and lead thriving teams that learn from successes, failures, disagreements, and challenges.
Conflict is inevitable, but it doesn’t have to be unmanageable. Discover how to effectively handle—and coach members of your team in handling—disagreements through careful preparation, good communication, and a focus on solutions that work for all parties.
What's included
8 videos29 readings1 assignment
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8 videos•Total 22 minutes
Why Conflict Can Be Good for Innovation•3 minutes
What’s Your Approach to Conflict?•2 minutes
A Healthy Way to Engage with Conflict•3 minutes
Get Ready for a Tough Conversation•3 minutes
What Good Listening Really Sounds Like•3 minutes
Turning Conflict into a Healthier Relationship•3 minutes
One Key to Resolving Conflict: Open Mindedness•1 minute
When Conflict Is Productive and When It’s Not•3 minutes
29 readings•Total 290 minutes
Respond to Conflict with Confidence•10 minutes
The upside of conflict•10 minutes
Misconceptions about conflict•10 minutes
What’s your conflict style?•10 minutes
Common sources of disagreement•10 minutes
Ways to address conflict•10 minutes
Prepare for a Difficult Conversation•10 minutes
How did we get here?•10 minutes
Consider the other person’s style•10 minutes
Determine your goal•10 minutes
Get in the right mindset•10 minutes
Make a plan•10 minutes
Talk Through a Disagreement•10 minutes
Frame the conversation•10 minutes
Listen well•10 minutes
Share your point of view•10 minutes
Choose your words carefully•10 minutes
Resolve a Conflict Successfully•10 minutes
Recipe for a successful resolution•10 minutes
Focus on agreement•10 minutes
Explore options together•10 minutes
Map out a solution•10 minutes
Repair your relationship•10 minutes
Help Your Team Deal with Conflict•10 minutes
Beyond us versus them•10 minutes
Foster respect on your team•10 minutes
Address insensitive behavior•10 minutes
Lead by example•10 minutes
Know when to intervene•10 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
Difficult Interactions Assessment•30 minutes
Feedback Essentials
Module 2•4 hours to complete
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Feedback fosters learning and leads to stronger relationships and higher performance. Discover how to give and receive meaningful feedback that can help you—and your team—succeed.
What's included
6 videos22 readings1 assignment
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6 videos•Total 17 minutes
Guess What? People Want Feedback•2 minutes
I'm Afraid to Damage the Relationship•2 minutes
Feedback Can Help You Do Your Best Work•4 minutes
Work Through Challenging Feedback•3 minutes
Modeling Feedback on Your Team•2 minutes
Create a Culture of Feedback on Your Team•3 minutes
22 readings•Total 220 minutes
Why Feedback Matters•10 minutes
What is feedback?•10 minutes
The benefits of feedback•10 minutes
Feedback challenges•10 minutes
Feedback as an ongoing conversation•10 minutes
Get the Feedback You Need to Succeed•10 minutes
Ask for feedback•10 minutes
Gather feedback from multiple sources•10 minutes
Seek advice instead of feedback•10 minutes
Receive feedback graciously•10 minutes
Apply what you’ve learned•10 minutes
Give Effective Feedback•10 minutes
Get comfortable giving feedback•10 minutes
Prepare for the conversation•10 minutes
Deliver the message effectively•10 minutes
Foster dialogue•10 minutes
Handle emotional responses•10 minutes
Follow through•10 minutes
Encourage Feedback on Your Team•10 minutes
Make it safe to give and get feedback•10 minutes
Ask for feedback on your leadership•10 minutes
Enable peer-to-peer feedback•10 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
Feedback Essentials Assessment•30 minutes
Graded Assessments and Projects
Module 3•1 hour to complete
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2 assignments
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2 assignments•Total 60 minutes
Course-End Assessments•30 minutes
Course-End Project•30 minutes
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