Phi Theta Kappa Leadership Development Studies Unit 8

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Phi Theta Kappa Leadership Development Studies
Unit 8

• Guiding Through Conflict

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Reflect Focus

• When you want to convert someone to your view,
  you go over to where he is standing, take him by
  the hand, and guide him. You dont stand across
  the room and shout at him you dont order him to
  come over where you are. You start where he is
  and work from that position. Thats the only way
  to make him to budge.
• Thomas Aquinas

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The Iliad

• Type of Conflict?
• Iliad Skits
• What motivates Agamemnon?
• What does Achilles really want?
• Why does Agamemnon fail to resolve his rift with
  Achilles? How might he have successfully
  resolved their differences?

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Four Types of Conflict
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Chimate Chumbolo

• Is there difference between mediation and
  managing conflict?
• What different techniques does Chimate Chumbolo
  employ to deal with conflict in her community?
• What values guide her mediation?

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Ten Steps To Successful Conflict Management

• Understand the type of conflict
• Show respect
• Separate positions from needs
• Identify common interests
• Define the problem as mutual
• Listen actively
• Be alert for bias
• Generate options
• Know your response pattern
• Remain moral

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Approaches to Conflict

• A -- Attack
• E -- Evade
• I -- Inform
• O -- Open
• U -- Unite

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James Madison The Federalist 10

• What are factions?
• What are the causes of factionalism?
• Liberty, human nature
• Is factionalism bad?
• It can be like a disease
• In what ways will the new structure of government
  deal with factional conflict, according to
  Madison?
• Representative government and checks and balances
  avoid a tyranny of the majority which can
  emerge with pure democracy and is a worse disease
  than factionalism.
• Can too much concern for the rights of minority
  factions create difficulties?