This is an interactive online workshop designed to help participants increase their understanding of conflict and the use of negotiation skills to manage it. Focussed on charities and the voluntary sector, participants will be able to understand the sources of conflict, how to manage it and become more effective in dealing with it in their organisations.
Learning objectives
The Learning Objectives for participants:
- To feel confident to engage in challenging conversations with people.
- To be aware of the need and process for challenging conversations and to take action when appropriate within the context of board and leadership.
- To be equipped to challenge the statement, “Everything is Fine” in conversaon when other evidence clearly points to the need to address an issue or situation.
Audience
Manchester trustees of local charities and new trustees
Format
This one-hour online workshop is participative and uses facilitator’s input, individual and group exercises. Group discussions and feedback are used to develop learning points and to enable participants to relate examples to their own situations.
The expert trainer: Dr Alastair Jones
Alastair is a highly experienced specialist in people development including conflict resolution. As a full member of the Association for Coaching and former CEO of a national youth work charity with projects in alternative education, reducing offending and alongside marginalised communities he has supervised, trained and been accountable for work in many conflict situations. As a coach, consultant, and trainer he now supports leaders in businesses, not for profit organisations and local government.
Over the past 20 years, he has lectured and written research in the youthwork sector in a variety of contexts and has recently stepped down from the employers' side of the local government pay and conditions board “The JNC” for youth workers, where he represented the voluntary youth sector for over 15 years as part of the negotiations between unions and employers.