Transforming Conflict
into Opportunity

Transforming Conflict into Opportunity addresses the process of conflict resolution through Team Building Creativity's unique adaptation of the structures and tools of Improv (comedy and theater) to transport individuals, teams, and businesses away from destructive divergence and toward creative convergence. This interactive training seminar addresses the classic business and organizational dilemma: Will conflict (and its resolution) become incorporated into a dynamic creative process, or, will it subvert the corporate vision and ultimately destroy the potential for innovation and growth?

Transforming Conflict into Opportunity focuses on:

• Identifying the five distinct conflict resolution styles available to address disputes.
  
• Proactive transformation of obstacles to conflict resolution into opportunity.
  
• Recognition of the differences between creative and destructive conflict

• Utilizing the tools of Improv to acquire collaborative intervention strategies that will constructively enhance conflict resolution.
  
• Illuminating the ways in which humor can creatively complement the process of conflict resolution.
  
• Development of personal, organizational, and motivational strategies to productively utilize conflict in the future .
  

Conflict is an inevitable part of life. The workplace is an incubator for conflict. Many of us deal with conflict by avoiding it. Yet from the smallest dispute to the most serious instance of violence in the workplace, the effect of negative conflict on the business endeavors of management, marketing, teamwork, development, product design, sales and innovation can be devastating.

Transforming Conflict into Opportunity differs from other conflict resolution seminars in that it uses the framework of constructive humor of Improv to separate people from the problem , validate points of view, focus on productive interests (rather than intractable positions), and identify future zones of creative collaboration. Critical to any successful seminar on conflict resolution is the degree of safety that participants experience from the training. Successful conflict resolution means taking risks. If the environment isn't safe, the status quo will not change, or worse, conditions will deteriorate.

The collaborative framework inherent to Improv is an effective vehicle to address and resolve conflict and the crisis that it can create. Our seminars on conflict resolution utilize this proactive art form to (gently and safely) introduce a number of crises and obstacles for participants to transform into opportunity. Our unique adaptation of the structures of Improv creates a framework that supports interactive collaboration under seemingly challenging circumstances.

Teaching new strategies within a non-threatening domain, the training framework characterized through Improv allows participants to gain confidence as they tackle and conquer increasingly difficult problem solving challenges. Our Improv training seminars utilize the creative and constructive power of positive humor to heal and motivate your organization, business, or team to adapt and constructively utilize the conflicts that inevitably arise daily in the workplace.

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