When you download the New Conflict Management: Effective Conflict Resolution Strategies to Avoid Litigation you will learn how wise negotiators extract unexpected value using an indirect approach to conflict management.


Conflict scenarios

The following items are tagged Conflict scenarios:

Strategies to Resolve Conflict over Deeply Held Values

Posted by & filed under Conflict Resolution.

Some of our most heated negotiations and disputes concern our core values, including personal moral standards, religious and political beliefs, and our family’s welfare. Business partners sometimes clash over the ethical standards they expect each other to uphold. Parents might forbid their teenager from attending a party during the pandemic. Friends may feel bitterly divided … Read More 

Causes of Conflict: When Taboos Create Trouble

Posted by & filed under Conflict Resolution.

In negotiation, some topics are difficult to even bring up. Such taboo issues can easily become causes of conflict, writes Daniel Shapiro, founder and director of the Harvard International Negotiation Program, in Negotiating the Nonnegotiable: How to Resolve Your Most Emotionally Charged Conflicts (Viking, 2016). Consider these real-life conflict scenarios:

While negotiating an acquisition that would … Read Causes of Conflict: When Taboos Create Trouble