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Target Audience: Staff involved in Leadership roles
Disagreement is the engine of good decision making. Yet many of us find it difficult to challenge others, or struggle to articulate disagreements productively. Others of us can find it hard to respond positively to being challenged ourselves. This unique and innovative workshop has been designed to help individuals and teams to improve their capacity for constructive disagreement and hence for effective collaboration and group decision making.
Part 1: The value of disagreement
1. Disagreement as a powerful and productive force
2. Highlights of the research on disagreement
3. The benefits to the bottom line of disagreeing
4. The cultural value of disagreement and cognitive diversity
Part 2: Learning to disagree well
5. Why it can be hard to disagree
6. Recognise your natural disagreement style
7. Work with the strengths and gaps in your natural style to become better at disagreeing
Part 3: Coping with others' disagreement
8. Identify and respond flexibly to other people’s disagreement styles
9. Working with someone who constantly disagrees
10. Develop your ability to manage challenge, disagreement and conflict
11. Building your Emotional Intelligence
Part 4: Practical application
12. Creating/contributing to a culture of constructive disagreement
13. Skills practise using real-life case studies
14. Action planning on your own scenario
Delivered By: Cambridge Executive Development