Conflict Management at Work: Real World Strategies & Tools

Conflict Management at Work: Real World Strategies & Tools

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A Practical Introduction to Workplace Conflict Management for Managers and Supervisors

Updated on Sep, 2026

Business, Human Resources, Conflict Management

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Conflict is an inevitable part of working life. And it's not always bad.

But, often, it is. It can be stressful, harm productivity, spoil working relationships, and lead to damaging behaviors.

And, if you have any level of responsibility as a team leader, supervisor, or manager, fixing it may well be down to you.

As a manager or a leader, conflict management is a part of your job!

So you need the tools to deal with conflict at work. And this course will give you them.

More than that, you'll learn how and why conflict arises, and how to minimize it before it takes hold.

The sources of conflict

The effect of personalities on conflict

The ways people resist imposed ideas

The signs and stages of conflict escalation

The steps for de-escalating conflict

Strategies for resolving conflict

Five ways to handle conflict

How to recover a broken (workplace) relationship

Ongoing Project: Your Conflict Log During the course, your project will be to keep and share aspects of your Conflict Log. You will create a record of your observations, successes, and struggles. Other students and your tutor will support you, endorse your successes, and help you with your questions.

Prior Experience The only prior experience you need is daily life. If you’ve been a hermit or in long-term peaceful coexistence with all your fellow human beings, you won’t need this course.

However, the people who may find this most valuable are those who experience conflict in the workplace, and especially those in supervisory or management roles.

Your Tutor Your tutor is Dr Mike Clayton. As a senior manager at the international consulting firm, Deloitte, Mike had to deal with conflict among staff, with clients, and even among clients. But more importantly, as a senior representative of his firm and a program leader, he needed to avoid escalation of conflict.

Now, as a trainer and facilitator, he has been applying what he learned and teaching it to others. This course represents 15 years of experience in what tools students find most helpful, and 25 years of experience in business, managing conflicts large and small.

We have you covered However, it's not all been plain sailing. Three times in 25 years, Mike has had to use his own 'Breakdown Routine' to the breakdown of a professional relationship. Three times it worked. And managers and leaders he has coached have used it with equal success.

So, you see, we have you covered. This course will give you the tools to:

Reduce and reverse its escalation

Handle full-blown conflict

and... recover from the effects of a conflict-induced relationship breakdown.

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Check out the detailed breakdown of what’s inside the course

Dr Mike Clayton is a business trainer, author and speaker. Since 2002, he has been helping professionals, managers and leaders to excel in their roles with management, leadership, and personal effectiveness training.

Mike has written over a dozen books for major publishers like Wiley, Macmillan and Pearson, including: Powerhouse, How to Manage a Great Project, How to Speak so People Listen, Brilliant Time Management, and The Influence Agenda.

Mike's professional background is 12 years as a project management professional with the London office of international management consultancy Deloitte. Prior to that, Mike had an academic career in Physics, working at the world renowned Schuster Laboratory of The University of Manchester.

Mike currently has 14 courses on Tutorialspoint, with a long list of successful seminars and training courses to convert into video format.

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