conflict resolution: starting point for reform
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Conflict Resolution: Starting Point for Reform
One MN Legislative Conference 2012
David Landis
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Problem Solving Model•Mess• Identify problems•Agree on problem• Identify solutions•Evaluate solutions• Implementation plan
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Legislative Model
Consent to the governed- elections
Majority rule- legitimacy
Rule of Law- outputs
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Consensus Building Model
Convener
Initial Stakeholders
Neutral Process Manager Selected
Rethink Stakeholders
Stakeholder Analysis
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Consensus Building (cont.)
Stakeholder Analysis
• motivations, preferences, resources
Joint session
Single text procedure
• seek criticism, improve
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Consensus Building (cont.)
Process manager completes single text
Stakeholders asked:
“Can you live with this?”
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Role #1
Your mother says, “Go to the store. Bring me an orange. You come home without an orange and you’ll be in trouble.”
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Role #2
Your mother says, “Go to the store. Bring me an orange. You come home without an orange and you’ll be in trouble.”
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Role #3
Your mother says, “Go to the store and bring me an orange. Family is coming over tomorrow, I’m going to peel the orange and cut up the pulp for a fruit salad. Bring me an orange or you’ll be in trouble.”
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Role #4
Your mother says, “Go to the store, bring me an orange. Family is coming over tomorrow. I’m going to peel the orange and grate the peel to flavor some orange bread I’m making. Bring me an orange or you’re in trouble.”
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5 into 2
• No division of items
• No side deals
• Must divide all five between you
• Divide in 2 minutes or get nothing
• Item:– 5 crisp $1,000 bills
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5 into 2
• All the same rules
• Items:– 2 tickets, great concert– Designer jacket
– Glider flight over Grand Canyon
– Elegant fine French meal and wine for 2
– Martha Stewart cooks and cleans
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Worker’s Comp Deal
Business Labor
Dr. Choice
Managed Care
Indexed Benefits
Safety Comm./ Inspectors
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Worker’s Comp Deal
Business Labor
Dr. Choice Yes
Managed Care Yes
Indexed Benefits No
Safety Comm./ Inspectors
No
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Worker’s Comp Deal
Business Labor
Dr. Choice Yes No
Managed Care Yes No
Indexed Benefits No Yes
Safety Comm./ Inspectors
No Yes
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Worker’s Comp Deal
Business Labor
Dr. Choice Yes 1 No
Managed Care Yes 2 No
Indexed Benefits No 3 Yes
Safety Comm./ Inspectors
No 4 Yes
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Worker’s Comp Deal
Business Labor
Dr. Choice Yes 1 No 3
Managed Care Yes 2 No 4
Indexed Benefits No 3 Yes 1
Safety Comm./ Inspectors
No 4 Yes 2
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Shared Interests – valued alike
• An 800 phone number for workers’ rights.
• Better enforcement against companies without work comp.
• Informal dispute resolution method.
• Higher contribution from unsafe businesses.
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Tools for Mutual Gain
• Interests before positions
• Priorities traded across differences
• Fair process norms
• Objective criteria
• Trust through authentic communication
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Conflicting Interests
• Definition:– Valued alike, in opposition (money is the
most common
• Strategy– Use objective criteria to insure fair results
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Complementary Interests
• Definition:– Elements valued differently
– Need at least two to link
• Strategy– discover, link, maximize
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Shared Interests
• Definition:– Valued alike, good for both
• Strategy– Discover, maximize
– No need to link
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Talk late
Debate often
Start with solutions
Start with positions
Narrow options
Talk early
Talk often
Start with problem
Start with interests
Generate options
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Invent, then evaluate
Stakeholders interact
Neutral process manager
Search for standards
What can you live with?
Constant evaluation
Stakeholders do not
Partisan process manager
Search for votes
What do you want?
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Focus on Interests before Positions
• Interests = underlying motivations– The answer to “why?”
• Positions = “yes or no” options– The answer to “how much?”
• Focusing on interests induces problem solving because they are flexible and create satisfaction.
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Invent Options for Mutual Gain
• Brainstorm method of advancing parties’ interests
• Invent first, then decide
• Link differences, priorities
• Maximize shared interests
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Use Objective Criteria
• Learn marketplace
• Frame dispute as a joint search for fair standards
• Adjust standards for unique circumstances
• Open with an offer you can justify
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Separate People from the Problem
Be unconditionally cooperative on process– Good listening
– Fair characterizations
– Symbolic gestures
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Separate Problem from the People
Be firm on fair outcomes– Trade cooperation
– Reason, be open to reason
– Results need a fair, reasonable basis