Click here to view the March 9th INTEREACH webinar, the third installment in our Spring 2021 series on Boundary Sapnning Tools for Research Teams. In this episode we are introduced to two (2) tools for dealing with conflict, and specifically to transform conflict into generative, problem-solving interactions. First, Dr Hannah Love, Team Scientist, Professional Facilitator and Co-Founder of Divergent Science LLC, presents on a tool called Gradients of Agreement. This tool is allows teams delve deeply into participatory decision-making to expand the binary spectrum of agreement from “yes” or “no”, to a whole continuum of agreement. Hannah also demonstrates a number of modalities for implementing the Gradients of Agreement with a virtual group.
Next, Dr Gabriele Bammer, Professor of Integration and Implementation Sciences, Research School of Population Health, The Australian National University joins us asynchronously to share the Principled Negotiation tool, which encourages conflicting parties to engage in structured dialogue to find mutually agreeable and fair solutions to their disagreement. This tool is also called “Getting to Yes”, from Fisher, Ury, and Patton in their 1981 book “Getting to Yes. Negotiation an agreement without giving in.” Dr Bammer outlines the 4 steps involved in the tool’s use: 1. Separate the people from the problem, 2. Focus on interests, not positions, 3. Generate a variety of possibilities for deciding what to do, and 4. look for a fair solution, based on merits, and then provides two example case studies to illustrate the process and intricacies.
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