Difficult conversation analysis
ASSIGNMENT
Identify a difficult conversation/conflict that you have recently experienced. Focus on your own experiences.
If you are uncomfortable using your own experience you may choose a problematic conflict that someone you know has experienced, or use a TV show or movie.
If you choose the latter – you MUST run it by me – before you leave on break.
This should be a conflict that you are familiar with and one that you understand and can write about in great detail. The conflict you choose may be a group or a private dyadic type of conflict in a work, family, or friendship/intimate relationship context—the choice is yours.
Describe the conflict in detail. This might include the topic, the participants and their relationship, what the major concerns are, where the differences or conflict lies, what people have said and or done, and other details that you believe are important for the reader to know. Be as detailed and explicit as possible.
Include actual dialogue (this might be spoken words, text message, email messages, etc).
Write an 8 – 10 page analysis (formal, academic, following APA 7 th edition Style) where you describe the conflict as explained above, analyze what has transpired, and make explicit and detailed recommendations (you should incorporate concepts/theories found in the Hocker et al. text and the Difficult Conversations
book as well as any other material that is relevant and useful) for how the conflict could be transformed and solutions found.
