Feedback or Conflict? A Relational Approach

This workshop introduces participants to the Relational Leadership framework and explores relational feedback as a means to build psychological safety and leadership skills. It emphasizes the importance of relational communication, and awareness of one’s own and others’ perspectives, cultural lenses, and lived experience. This workshop consists of one online session of 2 hours. The session will include brief didactics, large group discussion, and small breakout group work. 

Learning Objectives

By the end of this session, participants will: 

1. Understand what a culture of feedback is and why it is an important aspect of healthy teams. 
2. Practice providing feedback using a relational framework. 
3. Examine how conflict relates to their work and personal experiences. 
4. Understand what conflict is and how to diagnose a conflict. 
5. Learn how to initiate a difficult dialogue.

 Target Audience: All SOM faculty and staff