Conflict Resolution
Make conflict work for your team, not against it
Every team hits friction, clashing priorities, strong opinions, tension left unsaid. Handled badly it quietly festers; handled well it makes a team sharper and closer. This Growth day gives your people the skills and the safety to disagree openly, find common ground and turn that friction into progress.
Choose your activity
Four team building activities built for conflict resolution
Each one puts the team in a situation where people will see things differently, then we wrap the same guided reflection around it. Pick the one that fits your group, or ask us to recommend.
Deadline
Deadline is a fast, tablet-based strategy game where your team runs a company’s entire supply chain. Buying raw materials, arranging transport and scheduling production to ship on time and at the lowest cost. As the clock ticks, constant updates hit the tablet. f Floods, strikes, trade wars, etc. forcing the team to rethink decisions and adapt the plan on the fly. It’s a pressure-cooker test of quick thinking, risk preparedness and staying composed when the situation keeps shifting; not unlike the real world.
Breaking Barriers
Break those barriers that are holding you back from achieving your goals. Jambar’s breaking barriers helps people identify, acknowledge and overcome their fears and insecurities that are stopping them from achieving their goals. This is achieved by using mental strength and focus to physically break through a thick wooden board, a goal that initially seems unachievable. By the end of the session, participants will be overwhelmed with all the positive energy they gained through out the activity. They will feel a sense of achievement which will help them navigate through their barriers both in their personal and work lives.
Virus Challenge
In this board-game-based simulation, teams act as a global health organization tasked with eradicating lethal outbreaks before they paralyze the world. Each member wields a unique, specialized skill set, requiring the group to reach a fast consensus and optimize individual strengths to stave off the next epidemic. This high-pressure mission forces participants to handle sudden adversity and shifting priorities as they race against both the clock and rival teams. By working toward a shared cure, colleagues develop deep cooperative bonds and realize that clear, synchronized communication is the only way to navigate a global crisis.
Change It Up
Step back into 14th-century Singapore with an immersive bartering challenge that tests your team’s ability to survive and thrive within a volatile social hierarchy. Divided into factions with varying levels of influence, participants must navigate historical crises like famine and disease by forging strategic alliances and mastering the art of the “win-win” negotiation. This high-stakes simulation hones collaborative problem-solving and change management, forcing teams to pivot their strategies to turn environmental threats into profitable opportunities. It is a powerful lesson in resourcefulness and long-term partnership, proving that a team’s resilience and adaptability are the true keys to building a rags-to-riches legacy.
Not sure which fits? Tell us your group size & preferred date and we’ll recommend the best activity for the conflict resolution outcome.
who is this growth day for
For teams where tension goes unspoken
If any of these sound like your team, a conflict resolution day helps them clear the air and move forward together.
Small frictions are hardening into factions or quiet grudges
The same tensions keep resurfacing without ever getting resolved
Disagreements get avoided until they eventually boil over
People go quiet in the room, then vent about it afterwards
Strong personalities dominate while others give in to keep the peace
conflict handled well
What your team
walks away with
Through hands-on challenges and guided reflection, the team learns to face disagreement openly and constructively, then carries that mindset into everyday problems.
Surface it early
Raise tensions while they’re small, before they harden into grudges.
Disagree respectfully
Challenge ideas and push back without it turning personal.
See the other view
Understand where the other person is coming from before reacting.
Find common ground
Move from opposing positions to what everyone actually wants.
Stay calm in the heat
Keep composure and think clearly when a conversation gets tense.
Repair and move on
Reset the relationship so conflict strengthens the team, not splits it.
How a growth day works
The activity changes. The method doesn’t.
Whichever activity you choose, we wrap it in the same Frame → Pause → Commit method, so the day stays fun, but the conflict resolution lessons actually stick.
Deep, hands-on facilitation. Facilitators draw out the learning at every step.
1
Pre-frame
Set the mindset for the day: be focused, curious, present and open to being vulnerable.
2
Targeted outcome
Facilitated discussion with videos & slides to name the one thing the team will focus on in the activity.
3
The activity
Run the experience with that focus front of mind, so the lesson plays out in real time.
4
Guided reflection
What did you notice? What went well? Were you able to hold the focus? Facilitators turn the experience into insight.
5
Moving forward
Build a concrete action plan for putting the learning to work back in the office.
A worksheet runs through every step, from pre-frame to forming the action plan at the end.
Frequently Asked Questions, answered
Who is this growth day for?
Teams carrying tension nobody names. The same argument keeps coming back, disagreements get avoided until they boil over, small frictions harden into quiet grudges, the real conversation happens after the meeting, and one or two strong personalities have quietly ended the debate.
What will be different afterwards?
Tensions get raised while they’re still small. People challenge an idea without making it personal, stay composed when things get warm, and know how to repair a relationship afterwards rather than working around it for months.
Why these activities?
We have four activities that create friction on purpose, then give the team a safe place to notice how they handled it. Deadline and the Virus Challenge force decisions under pressure, and in Change It Up, factions with different levels of influence form alliances and negotiate their way to a win win. Breaking Barriers gets people naming what’s actually in the way, which is usually the hardest step.
Will it force people to confront each other?
Not at all, nothing personal gets aired in the room. The friction happens inside the activity, and the reflection afterwards is about how the team handles disagreement in general rather than any particular one.
How is it different from Team Communication?
Conflict resolution is for tension that already exists, while communication is for teams who get on but keep misreading each other. If there’s something unspoken sitting in the room, this is the one.
Let’s design your teams growth day
Tell us the outcome you’re chasing and the team you’re bringing. We’ll shape a day that delivers it and is genuinely good fun along the way.
