Activities for Conflict Negotiation

In our daily and professional lives, we always live as social beings intertwined with people. In a social environment, there can be agreements as well as disagreements. The best way to resolve these agreements or disagreements is through negotiation. Every negotiation starts from a conflict. In this lesson, where we will learn the positive and negative consequences and effects of conflict negotiation for us, we have created an interactive lesson flow with the help of Perculus. Now will our ideas clash or will we be united in the same idea. Let's learn conflict negotiation together.

20 activities to make conflict negotiation more interactive

Online training has been the new normal after Covid 19. Video and video conferencing based online training has been the easiest to implement and many training companies started using these methods to carry on their conflict negotiation. But over the time, participants started get bored in such an environment and started to have Zoom fatigue. The training companies and trainers needed more tools to engage their audience with the training.

Different opinions, empathic thinking, body signs and tone of voice can start or end a conflict. In the negotiation phase, everyone needs to suppress this conflict and stop at some point. In this Perculus course, we will learn how to deal with a conflict of ideas and how to move through the negotiation process with a calm demeanor. We will examine and learn conflict negotiation from the most difficult example to the simplest discussion. Let's examine the flow we have created together. Let's dedicate 3 class hours to learning conflict negotiation.

Why engage with participants in conflict negotiation?

It was nearly impossible to create the in-person sensations students experience in an online environment. Instructors need to create 800% more touchpoints in order to be as effective as in-person classes. Over 77% of students struggle to motivate themselves to pay attention. Research has shown that students who perceive high levels of interaction also perceive high levels of learning. Instructors controlling content and interaction, can have positive effects on the perceived learning of the students. Solo video conferencing negatively effects productivity. Sessions held exclusively with video conferencing decrease the productivity of the audience drastically. Some of issues faced;

Lack of accountability
Lack of instructor-participant interaction
Difficulty in assessment methodologies
Higher levels of learning in more instructor-controlled learning environments

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Persuading people is difficult.

Pin Yourself

Persuading people is difficult. But some people can be even more difficult to convince. Perhaps you are one of the most difficult people to convince. In your opinion: Which country's people are more difficult to convince? Pin it on the map.

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Let our ideas compete.

Brainstorming

Let us agree on the most reasonable, if not the most correct. Which of the needs, objectives and Negotiating Position is more important to you and why? Let's discuss.

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To negotiate or not to negotiate.

Multiple Choice, Multiple Answer Question

Some situations we emphasize and discuss a lot, but some situations we don't discuss at all. Which of the following do you think are situations that require negotiation?

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Full 180 Minute sample course plan for Conflict Negotiation with interactive activities

No	Time	Flow
1	5 mins.	Upload Document	A few slides to introduce yourself and add show the agenda
2	15 mins.	Two Truth One Lie	Write down two topics on which you agree and one topic on which you disagree.
3	5 mins.	Pin Yourself	Which country's people are more difficult to convince?
4	20 mins.	Creating Breakout Rooms	What would you do if you were opposite Hitler at the negotiating table?
5	5 mins.	Guesstimate	How many steps make up the discussion cycle?
6	10 mins.	Break	A Short Coffee Break
7	10 mins.	Brainstorming	Needs, objectives and Negotiating Position.
8	5 mins.	Whiteboard	Our Styles of Conflict
9	10 mins.	Screen Sharing	Let's learn conflict styles.
10	5 mins.	Upload Video	Examples of Conflict Resolution.
11	15 mins.	Miro Board	Empathic Negotiation Canvas.
12	5 mins.	Share Video	Bodily Signs.
13	10 mins.	Break	A Short Coffee Break
14	2 mins.	Multiple Choice, Single Answer Question	Which situation does not cause conflict?
15	3 mins.	Multiple Choice, Multiple Answer Question	Which of these are situations that require negotiation?
16	5 mins.	Short Answer Question	How do you resolve disagreements that come to you about something and from people of a certain status?
17	10 mins.	Likert Scale	How Do You Resolve Conflicts?
18	30 mins.	Second Camera	Let's set an example of conflict and negotiation.
19	5 mins.	Upload Document	What did we learn in our lesson?
20	5 mins.	Google Docs	Homework: Choose a negotiation that ended in disagreement and explain how you could have reached an agreement. (Cannot be regulated)

Online Activities for Instructors and Teachers

It is very hard to manage online sessions and activities when they are not fully integrated into the platform. Perculus offers instructors an experience with integrated tools to assist their training. This way they can be focused on their sessions, the rest is under Perculus' control.

Brainstorming

Find out top-voted ideas! With brainstorming, you can ask your attendees to write their thoughts on a specific matter, then get these ideas voted on. This would help you to get to know your students, and find out which ideas get the most and least voted.

Word Cloud:

Let the words shine behind the clouds! Word cloud feature can take your communication with your users to the next level. This tool also offers you an atmosphere where you can discuss and brainstorm on the most used answers.

Whiteboard:

Old school. Do you miss classrooms? Open the whiteboard, let every participant use it for writing, and list. This can make attendees feel comfortable and part of it the class.

Upload Document:

Gather up the question marks. Upload documents that contain your syllabus, and the articles you think will help attendees to process your training. Fully.

Second Camera:

A smile can make your day! With a second camera, you can use Perculus as a real-life lab. It’s a special activity to make applied courses!

Creating Breakout Rooms

Let’s tear down the walls! It’s hard to communicate with people through video conferences but creating breakout rooms can engage your students. This can break the ice between attendees and offers them a platform to experience working together.

External App:

Create your space! You can move your apps to Perculus through the embed feature. This way you are ready to collect and manage all the activities you are using. Here are three tools that have deep integration with Perculus:

Miro
Padlet
Google Docs

You can add these tools to Perculus by simply copying their links.