Conflict Resolution: Core Skills and Strategies

College of Health and Human Sciences

Description:

In this course, you will learn communication theories and acquire interpersonal skills that are useful in understanding, analyzing, and managing conflict. The relational, emotional, and substantive aspects of conflict will be addressed, including the influences of gender, culture, power, and forgiveness at the interpersonal, group, community, and global levels. Through this practice-based approach, you will attain communication and conflict resolution skills, models, and procedures that are pragmatic as well as theoretical. Completion will meet the Kansas Office of Dispute Resolution's requirements for approval in core mediation: the Dispute Resolution Act, K.S.A. 5-501 and Rule 912.

To successfully complete the microcredential and earn a digital badge, you must complete course assignments and receive an overall score of 80%.

Instructor: Brett Mallon

Professor – Applied Human Sciences

More information:
microcred@k-state.edu

LEVEL

Intermediate

WHO IS ELIGIBLE

Anyone

CREDIT OR NONCREDIT

Noncredit

INSTRUCTION METHOD

Online

TIME TO COMPLETE

Months

SKILLS OBTAINED

Communicative Approaches

Conflict Resolution

Conflict Transformation

De-escalation Techniques

Discrimination Complaints

Dispute Resolution

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Initiatives

Employee Conflict Resolution