Submit your own 100 - 150 word response to one of scenarios (A) - (E) that discusses possible leadership solutions from Week 8 readings (Davidson, Davey, Connor). (3 points) - Use at least 2 terms or techniques in your analysis (e.g. accommodation, collaboration, conflict debt, paraphrase back, etc).

2) Submit a 50-100 word response to one of your team members (50-100 words, 2 points)

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A) "I have friends who are vegetarians and they often like to talk about how awful it is to eat meat. I eat meat. I buy organic and grass fed and all the best of everything. But they still argue that I am a hypocrite because I say I love animals. I feel like I understand their point of view, while I also think it's at a bit naive. But I don't feel like they try to see my point of view. There's no ... resolution yet."

B) "The most recent team [conflict] I can think of was in my club, we were debating what event we wanted to put on ... The team put all the suggestions on the board and then took it to a vote. I personally didn't agree with it since it was based solely on our preferences and there was no discussion. I feel like we should have focused on how each idea would affect the budget, would it appeal to the audience we are trying to reach, does it represent our club, and what are the benefits. Major vote works nicely when you cannot decide between to equally great options. However in this situation, it wasn't realistic. The majority vote selection ... ended up causing more problems... "

C) "A conflict I had with a team was when there was one adult whose job it was to lead us and the adult had two people among 50 who were like his right hand men. The adult would make decisions and ask the group if we were all okay with what he decided. The problem was the adult would berate you in front of the whole group if you did disagree with him, and no one felt psychologically safe. The two people that were his right hand would report people to the leader if you were caught disagreeing while we were away from the adult, and it was not a good team experience. Pretty much everyone had conflict with the adult and his right hand but we all pretty much took the avoiding approach. In hindsight we should have all disagreed with the adult publicly so we could have had change come about."

D) "Often at work I am seen as a lower member of the ranks. When bringing up possible to solutions to relatively easy issues at work, I am shot down and told to simply go with the ideas of higher members. I wish that I would be included in the discussion of ideas and not simply shunned out, giving me a reason as to why my ideas may not work or be valid for the particular situation."

E) "My family has conflicts all the time on political issues at dinner table. Sometimes these little chats grow into arguments (yeah, and we yell at each other lol). My family members, especially grandpa and dad, have strong opinions defending their own political beliefs, so I guess this is some kind of deep identity value. There is no resolution, just occasional conflicts from time to time, and I don't expect a change. In fact, kind of a family culture, we all enjoy listening to or participating in these exciting debates, because they inspire thinking and trigger new thoughts."