[DDN] FREE WEBINAR: Conflict in Collaboration: From Getting Along to Getting things Accomplished

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Title: Conflict in Collaboration: From Getting Along to Getting things
Accomplished

Speakers: Janet Salmons, Ph.D. and Lynn Wilson, Ph.D.

Date: Thursday, September 20, 2007

Time: 11:00 am EDT - 1:00 pm EDT (Arrive at 10:30 for tutorial on
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Event Background 

Conflict is a factor in many collaborative processes. Conflict is frequently
managed by attempting to eliminate it. In negating conflict, opportunities
for innovation can be overlooked. Conflict can become a positive force for
generating new, creative ideas. Successful collaborations can often do more
than create consensus. Under certain conditions they can encourage sharing
ideas, promote creative learning and allow a context for constructing new
parameters to address the original issue or problem. 

Conflict studies and conflict management tools provide a framework for using
conflict in collaboration, although these approaches sometime limit the
definition of desirable outcomes to achieving consensus. Collaboration
studies and practices add elements for considering more constructive uses of
conflict. Clear understanding about the types of conflict, together with
decisions about desirable collaborative outcomes and how to create and use
optimum tension can create an entirely new context in which to see conflict
as a positive tool for collaboration. 

These are some of the issues we'll explore from both theoretical and
practical perspectives in this webinar:

1.	What features distinguish conflict that is productive in
collaborative efforts from conflict that obstructs progress toward
collaborative outcomes? 

2.	How do we know whether a particular process can benefit from
purposefully using conflict or if the goal should be to overcome it? 

3.	Basic tenets of conflict resolution and management: uses and
limitations. Definitions and perspectives from the literature. 

4.	What issues surrounding conflict are particularly critical when the
collaboration takes place in the virtual environment? 

5.	Cases of conflict in collaboration - examples from different
disciplines and across disciplines 

6.	What can (and what cannot) be done about power in collaborative
efforts that involve conflict? 

7.	How can concepts about using conflict constructively be applied to
designing collaborations, addressing issues during a collaborative process
and evaluative collaborations? 

8.	Is so-called "intractable conflict" ever a positive element, or is
it always a barrier to collaborative efforts? 

9.	What are your experiences? Under what circumstances have you
encountered conflict in collaboration? Was it handled appropriately? Could
it have been leveraged for a more creative result? What did you learn that
others might apply? 

This presentation will take a closer look at some of the theories, factors
and practices that contribute to rethinking how to use conflict for
successful collaboration. It will also provide some techniques that
demonstrate how emerging work in collaboration contributes to the
scholarship and practice of conflict management. The webinar leaders will
draw from a wealth of scholarly and practical experience with conflict in
collaboration. They work in and across disciplines including education and
training, business and leadership, the arts, environmental science,
government policy-making and social sector disciplines. 

About the Presenters 

Janet Salmons, Ph.D., is a consultant through Vision2Lead,
Inc.(www.vision2lead.com <http://www.vision2lead.com/> ), and is online
faculty member at Capella University's School of Business and Technology
where she teaches in the MBA and PhD programs. ). Lynn Wilson, Ph.D., is
Executive Director of the environmental scientific and educational nonprofit
organization SeaTrust Institute (www.seatrustinstitute.org
<http://www.seatrustinstitute.org/> ). She also provides research, policy
and strategic advice to governmental, business and nonprofit organizations
through her firm, OSSIA. Lynn and Janet are editors of the forthcoming book,
A Handbook of Research on Electronic Collaboration and Organizational
Synergy (http://www.vision2lead.com/html/esynergy.html).

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