Learning Objective: Examine successful conflict management strategies for team building and achievement
Description: Managing conflict is a skill that takes practice and time to learn. Unmanaged struggles in the workplace can increase stress, lower teamwork production, diminish cooperation, and reduce employee commitment to the project and company. Effectively addressing workplace conflict is a beneficial means of bringing important issues to light, opening the lines of communication, and strengthening workplace relationships. Leaders that can embrace conflict are better able to build empathetic and stronger relationships, thereby attaining and experiencing grander personal and professional success. Join us as we examine those emotional triggers that can lead to conflict and discuss how to effectively manage situations with diplomacy, tact, and authority.
WOC2020 Managing Combat: Turning Conflict into Collaboration as a Woman in Leadership
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2. • Introductions
• Managing Conflict in the Workplace
• What is Conflict
• Turning Conflict into Collaboration
• HEALTHY Conflict
• Rules of Engagement
• Tools for Toolkit
Agenda
4. Turn Conflict into
Collaboration
• Bring Multiparty together
• Active Listening to other’s
perspectives
• Joint Understanding on Facts and
Data
• Find Common Ground to Action
Steps & Resolution
5. Healthy Conflict
• Create an environment where differences of opinions
are encouraged … Everyone’s opinion matters
• Expect people to support opinions with data and facts
• Pay attention to behavior … Understand differences
in personalities
• Focus on the issue, not the person
• Provide employees with training on healthy conflict
and problem-solving methods
6. Rules of Engagement
• Helps the team re-think the problem
• Helps the team work together with many expertise
• Helps the team develop better outcomes driving
results, innovation and change
This Not That
Suggesting different perspectives to an idea Being critical of an idea
Asking questions for clarity/understanding of the
idea
Being critical of the person
Discussing impact of possible consequences Being difficult
Sharing your voice Demanding to be heard
7. Tools In Your Toolkit
• Know YOURSELF
• What are my triggers
• How do I maintain a healthy discussion
• Know your LEADERSHIP STYLE
• Collaborator
• Dictator
• Influencer
• Know your PEOPLE
• Get to know them
• Find out what motivates them
• Behavioral Differences
8. Conflict can be healthy
when it promotes team
collaboration, encourages
diverse perspective &
debates that result in the
best outcome for the
organization.
10. A Professional Engineer (P.E.) is a person who is licensed
to practice engineering in a particular state or US
territory after meeting all requirements of law. To
practice in multiple states or territories, the P.E. must be
licensed in each state in which he or she wishes to
practice.• Only a licensed engineer may prepare, sign and seal, and submit
engineering plans and drawings to a public authority for approval, or
seal engineering work for public and private clients.
• PEs are often times responsible for not only their work, but also for
the lives affected by that work and must hold themselves accountable
and to the highest ethical standards of practice.
11. Becoming a Licensed Professional Engineer
• Earn a 4-year degree in engineering from an
Accreditation Board for Engineering and
Technology (ABET) accredited engineering
program
• Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) Examination
12. Becoming a Licensed Professional Engineer
• 4 years of acceptable, progressive, and verifiable
work experience in the industry.
• Principles and Practice of Engineering (PE)
Examination
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• Character Traits: Commitment / Sacrifice / Perseverance
Go to https://ncees.org/ for information, applications, and latest updates
with these exams
Notes de l'éditeur
Why become a Licensed Engineer:
Income - PE’s earn more and are promoted earlier than non PE’s
Entrepreneur - You cannot sell your engineering services to the public without a license
Prestige - You stand out among your peers with a clear accomplishment
Flexibility - Many opportunities with government agencies and consultants require a PE
Service - My skill and knowledge shall be given, without reservation, for the public good
Integrity - Practice integrity and fair dealing, tolerance and respect, and to uphold devotion to the standards and dignity of my profession
Career - Your opportunities will be greater
Recognition - Within your organization and among your co-workers
The FE exam is generally your first step in the process to becoming a professional licensed engineer (P.E.). It is designed for recent graduates and students who are close to finishing an undergraduate engineering degree from an Engineering Accreditation Commission EAC/ABET accredited program.
The FE exam includes 110-questions. The exam appointment time is 6 hours long and includes
Nondisclosure agreement (2 minutes)
Tutorial (8 minutes)
Exam (5 hours and 20 minutes)
Scheduled break (25 minutes)
The PE exam is designed to test for a minimum level of competency in a particular engineering discipline. It is designed for engineers who have gained a minimum of four years of work experience in their chosen engineering discipline.
There are currently 16 discipline-specific exams (Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Architectural Engineering, Chemical, Civil, etc.)
After successfully passing the exam, candidates must demonstrate qualifying engineering experience by apprenticing under a PE for four years.
The work needs to demonstrate that the applicant is a technically skilled engineer, displays a wide range of professional characteristics: independent decision-making, personal accountability, etc.
The exam includes 80 questions. The exam appointment time is 9 hours and includes
Nondisclosure agreement (2 minutes)
Tutorial (8 minutes)
Exam (8 hours)
Scheduled break (50 minutes)