LB5527 - Conflict Coaching

Credit points:	03
Year:	2011
Student Contribution Band:	Band 3
Administered by:	School of Law Office

Conflict coaching is a relatively new concept in Australia. It involves a conflict management specialist providing one-on-one support to a person to enable them to constructively deal with conflict. This support may be provided in relation to a specific conflict, or to assist the client to develop their conflict management skills more generally. The subject examines a number of different conflict coaching models, and participants will develop their own model based on a strong understanding of conflict and the coach's support role. The course will include a range of exercises and role plays to develop participants' conflict coaching skills. Topics covered include understanding conflict, different types of conflict support roles, conflict coaching and when is it used, alternative conflict coaching models, conflict coaching skills and ethical issues in conflict coaching.

Learning Outcomes

• appreciate the role and application of conflict coaching;
• develop skills in the planning, model selection and use of conflict coaching practice.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to appraise information critically;
• The ability to use independent judgment to synthesise information to make intellectual and/or creative advances;
• The ability to think laterally and be original;
• The ability to conceptualise problems;
• The ability to conceptualise and evaluate a range of potential solutions to relevant problems;
• The ability to encompass and use methods and conceptual advances in areas of knowledge cognate to their central area(s) of expertise;
• The potential to resolve conflicts.

Prerequisites:

LB5525 OR LB5502

Availabilities
Townsville, Block, Study Period 4
Census Date 17-Mar-2011
Face to face teaching (Workshop of 5 days duration: 23, 24, 25, 28, February and 1 March 2011)
Coordinator:	Mr Sean Johnson
Lecturer:	Assoc. Professor Sam Hardy.
Contact hours:	35 hours workshops/Seminars - Five day workshop
Assessment:	multidraft essay (50%); coaching log (20%); coaching self evaluation (30%).

Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.