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Conflict Management Essentials 

This course equips learners with foundational conflict management skills to navigate workplace challenges with composure, empathy, and effectiveness.

Amber Vanderburg
Business | core | 30 minutes |   Published: Aug 2025

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Overview

1098STUDENTS*
4.6RECOMMEND*

This course includes:

  • On-demand videos
  • Practice assessments
  • Multiple hands-on learning activities
  • Exposure to a real-world project
  • 100% self-paced learning opportunities
  • Certification of completion

This course equips learners with foundational conflict management skills to navigate workplace challenges with composure, empathy, and effectiveness. Through concise, actionable lessons, participants learn how to stay calm during emotional confrontations, understand the facts and feelings behind conflicts, give and receive feedback constructively, and set boundaries while preserving team trust. Key takeaways include practical strategies for de-escalating tension, advocating for oneself respectfully, and building resilient, high-performing team dynamics rooted in clarity, empathy, and accountability.

Skills You Will Gain

Conflict Management

Learning Outcomes (At The End Of This Program, You Will Be Able To...)

By the end of this course, learners will be able to: 

  • Apply practical techniques to manage emotional triggers and maintain composure in high-stress interactions. 
  • Use empathy-driven communication to understand both the facts and feelings behind conflict situations. 
  • Deliver and receive feedback constructively, fostering a growth-oriented and collaborative team environment. 
  • Identify and address trust breakdowns by distinguishing between character and competence gaps. 
  • Advocate for themselves and others with clarity and professionalism while preserving workplace harmony. 

Prerequisites

This course is designed to be accessible for learners at all levels. No prior formal training in conflict management is required.

Who Should Attend

  • Early-career professionals building workplace confidence.
  • Team members wanting to handle disagreements effectively.
  • New managers learning to lead through conflict.
  • Customer-facing staff managing tense interactions.
  • Students or interns preparing for collaborative roles.

Curriculum

Instructors

*Where courses have been offered multiple times, the “# Students” includes all students who have enrolled. The “%Recommended” shown is also based on this data.
Amber Vanderburg

Amber Vanderburg

Amber Vanderburg is a multi-award winning international businessperson, keynote speaker, author, and founder of the international learning development company, The Pathwayz Group which has led 850,000+ learners in more than 75 countries in action-focused leadership and team development learning journeys.
Amber's history in talent development includes onboarding, recruitment, employee relations, and mergers and acquisitions for a healthcare company, working in rural and urban healthcare environments, talent development with Paris Saint Germain Academy in Bangalore, India for cross cultural team building, intercultural leadership, and talent development, coaching executives from Fortune 500 companies and HR Director of Paradigm Shift Leadership in which she traveled across the United States working in leadership development with academic and corporate environments. She has worked in 40 different countries, mostly in Europe and Asia. She has authored business adventure book "Uniquely Better" about building higher team performance and "HR Guidelines Every Manager Should Know" 

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1Chapter 1: Emotional Control & De-Escalation
2Chapter 2: Feedback & Difficult Conversations
3Chapter 3: Boundaries, Advocacy & Team Culture

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Segment 09 - Stop Gossip Before It Wrecks Your Team

Segment 10 - How to Say “That’s Not Okay” When Lines Are Crossed

Segment 11 - Use This 3-Part Script to Move Forward from Tough Situations

Segment 12 - When You’re Wrong 

Segment 13 - Navigating Team Stress

Segment 14 - Advocating for Yourself

Segment : Quiz - Emotional Control & De-Escalation in Workplace Conflicts

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Segment 04 - How to Take Tough Feedback

Segment 05 - How to Give Effective Feedback

Segment 06 - Handling Personal Attacks Professionally

Segment 07 - Elements of Trust

Segment 09 - Disagree with Your Supervisor…Without Getting Fired

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Segment 00: Reading - Welcome to the Course: Course Overview

Segment 00 - How to Stay Calm When Customers Explode (1)

Segment 01 - The Power of Empathy Understanding Fact and Feeling

Segment 02 - The Power of the pause

Segment 03 - When a Teammate Snaps at You-What to Say Next