UT Austin: Conflict Management and Dispute Resolution Office

09/09/2021

Registration is now open for our Fall 2021 group series "Effective Communication in Conflict." Search for the title on UT Learn to register!
(groups are open to all benefits eligible staff at UT Austin. An individual pre-screening appointment is required to finalize registration)

03/25/2020

As a precaution against the spread of covid-19, our office is operating remotely. Conflict management and Dispute Resolution will be conducting all appointments by video or phone. If you would like to make an appointment, please email [email protected] and include your EID, email and phone contact info, and the date of the incident or document you are disputing (if applicable).

Timelines for formal grievances will be frozen the day an employee reaches out to our office, and will resume after meeting with the Dispute Resolution Officer.

If you are a UT employee experiencing distress, or cannot wait to talk to someone, please contact the Employee Assistance Program to speak to an EAP counselor via phone or video https://eap.utexas.edu/

06/09/2018

Restorative practices in the workplace

After a harassment investigation or mediation over inappropriate behaviour in a workplace, lawyers say the environment can become toxic to employees. Employment lawyers say that a workplace restoration process is a better way of dealing with the fallout of investigations and can help to return a sen...

04/06/2018

Empathy in action.

A high school senior started a unique club called We Dine Together to make sure no one in his school sits alone at lunch. As Steve Hartman reports, the message is to make outsiders always feel accepted.

03/27/2018

Talk it OUT Student Dialogue Series launches with Parkland event on April 5

“Talk it OUT” is a new student dialogue series aimed at engaging students in civil discourse around difficult issues.

Complementing the School Walk Outs across the country, “Talk it OUT: Student Dialogue in the Wake of Parkland” invites UT Austin students from across the political and social spectrum to come together, discuss the issues of gun violence and campus security and imagine a better way forward.
The goal of this non-partisan town hall style meetings is not to debate or protest, but simply to come together as a community to voice our concerns and ideas, to listen to others, and to explore our ability to work together to ensure security for us all.
This launch event will take place on Thursday, April 5, 2018 at the SAC Ballroom from 7-8:30 p.m. Tickets for the event are free and can be reserved at https://www.facebook.com/events/285795971954563/

Sponsors for Talk it OUT include: Center for Public Policy Dispute Resolution, Conflict Management and Dispute Resolution Office, Office of University Ombuds, UT Project on Conflict Resolution, Society of Professional Mediators, Bridging Disciplines Program on Conflict Resolution & Peace Studies.

02/08/2018

"Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible." - Dalai Lama quotes from BrainyQuote.com

01/25/2018

It is not the critic who counts; not the [person] who points out how the strong [individual] stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the [individual] who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming...”

They're the aha!-inducing thoughts about shame, vulnerability and daring greatly we can't get enough of. Look back at quotes from her first "Super Soul Sunday" interview and get a glimpse of what's to come on March 24.

01/05/2018

Success in negotiation and mediation requires planning and preparation...

Focus on four preliminary factors that can shape the outcome.

08/31/2017

https://www.theladders.com/p/21219/neuroscience-4-rituals-happy

You get all kinds of happiness advice on the internet from people who don’t know what they’re talking about. Don’t trust them. Trust neuroscience.

08/25/2017

Create a work and communication styles sheet for you and your team!
https://hbr.org/2017/05/do-you-know-how-each-person-on-your-team-likes-to-work