Supporting Others in Conflict
As supervisors, it is crucial to understand the significant role you play in supporting your team members during conflicts. Addressing conflicts effectively not only enhances team cohesion but also drives productivity and morale.
Diagnosing and Addressing Team Conflict
We’ve created a tool to help diagnose and address common team conflict issues, offering practical strategies to enhance trust, morale, and engagement.
Am I A Conflict Avoidant Supervisor?
Try Improving Your Conflict Competence, a LinkedIn Learning course that helps people managers improve their skills in managing workplace conflict.
Improving your workplace competence course
Role Plays on LinkedIn Learning
LinkedIn Learning offers a few AI-powered role plays that give you a chance to practice difficult conversations and receive feedback in a safe environment.
The role plays give practice for scenarios like:
- Giving feedback for prioritization
- Setting improvement goals for an underperformer
- Addressing burnout
- Providing feedback for an interrupter
- And more!
Coaching Employees through Difficult Situations

There is also a full LinkedIn Learning course, Coaching Employees through Difficult Situations, that explores various scenarios that supervisors face with employees and shows example conversations for working through them.
View Course: Coaching employees through difficult situations
**LinkedIn Learning is free for staff and students at University of Iowa