Coordinated Management of Meaning and Conflict Management

Want to address conflict more efficiently? What’s the best approach? Knowing the many techniques available to managers can help when faced with a challenging situation. Coordinated Management of Meaning can be a useful tool to help team members navigate disagreements more effectively. Understanding this and the other theories, models, and processes that inform the conflict resolution process provides a foundation to apply effective strategies in the workplace. Modeling healthy communication and interest-based, win-win negotiations leads to stronger teams and satisfied employees.

In this course on Coordinated Management of Meaning and Conflict Management, we will explore coordinated management of meaning and explain how it can be used to manage conflict in the workplace. You will learn about the main strategies for managing conflict, including the Serpentine Model, the LUUUTT Model, and the SEAVA Model. We will also examine some practical, real-life scenarios of how these models can be used in the workplace. 

Learning Objectives:

• Define coordinated management of meaning
• Identify basic strategies for managing conflict in the workplace
• Understand how to apply theories and strategies to real-world scenarios