Conflict Presentations

DCLD Group versus Kinecting the Boxes Presentations on Conflict

Both groups gave an outline and description of what Conflict is that it is a disagreement between parties involved, Perceived threats, clashes with needs, interests and concerns, strong will, bias and arrogance. Both groups also gave outlines of different types of conflicts, whether they were data conflict, relationship conflict, interest conflict, value conflict or structural conflicts.

Both groups spoke reasonably well about Conflict Resolution, touching on different and similar points, DCLD Group related those conflict resolutions to Conflicts in their group whereas Kinecting the Boxes used outside examples.

It was good that they both spoke about the positive and negative impacts of conflict in group work, showing that although conflict has negative affects like people feel defeated/demeaned, distance between people is increased, mistrust and suspicion increased, individuals and groups concentrate on their own narrow interests, resistance develops instead of teamwork and higher increase of staff turnover, there are also positive impacts like better ideas are produced, people search for new approaches, long-standing problems brought up and resolved, clarification of Individuals views, stimulation of interest and creativity and a chance for people to test their capacities.

 Both groups had the same methods of Conflict Resolution, Competitive, Collaborative, Compromising, Accommodating and Avoiding, when to use each one and the effects of each one.

The images in their presentations were good, DCLD had images of examples and conflict resolution methods, diagrams of conflict styles, screenshots of their work and their wiki, and two of their team in a mock conflict image. Kinecting the Boxes had images of little animated figures or outside photos of people showing conflict.

All the images were referenced, but the information was incorrectly referenced at the end of the presentation rather than with the slides that counts.

Would have been good if Kinecting the Boxes had expanded on their written presentation such as when talking about conflict resolution methods, at least a brief outline for when to use, advantages and what to consider.

Kinecting the Boxes had a lot of information in their presentation, but nothing related back to their group.