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Negotiations and Conflicts Presentations

“Negotiations and Conflicts Presentations” is an activity that utilizes www.prezi.com to create a presentation talking about how engineers use negotiation in workplace conflicts.

Outcomes:

The learner will be able to:

  • Give a 8 minute information presentation to describe how to use negotiation when dealing with workplace conflict
  • Work as a group or team to create a presentation
  • Develop vocabulary related to “negotiations”

Preparation:

  • Review presentation expectations: presents in a coherent connected discourse; uses introduction, development and conclusion, uses explicit markers and logical connectors; uses vocabulary adequately for the topic
  • Consider pragmatics language for voicing an opinion in culturally appropriate way
  • Review vocabulary such as negotiating gambits (for example: “I would like to suggest that you consider increasing the staffing to cope with the backlog.” or “Would you consider increasing the budget to hire more staff?”

Delivery:

In order to collaborate and create a 8 minute presentation where as Professional engineers deal with a workplace conflict

  1. Assign roles with one student to handle complaints about late deadlines and cost
    • Assign other roles to deal with client changes; another about service or product delays, etc.
  2. Choose a specific problem/ conflict with details so can effectively present how they will negotiate a solution to the conflict
  3. Do research related to the topic about negotiations
    • Discuss reading in small groups
    • List new vocabulary
  4. Create the online presentation using Prezi
    • Practice as a team; provide and receive feedback from peers
  5. Conclude the activity by giving the presentation; respond to questions

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The Canadian Language Benchmarks (CLB) skills addressed by this activity are:

  • Listening
  • Speaking
  • Writing