Employee Partners for Conflict Transformation (EmPaCT) offers a wide variety of tools you and your team can use to address conflict at Rutgers. If you seek one of these services with EmPaCT, please submit a form through ServiceNow to schedule a consultation. The list of EmPaCT services include:
Consultation and coaching from one of our conflict navigation specialists
- Feeling stuck? Don’t know how to proceed? A consultation is an opportunity to discuss, off the record, the conflict at hand, how it’s impacting you and your team, and explore possible pathways for resolving the conflict, be it through EmPaCT or referrals to other campus services that may be better positioned to help. Our specialists serve as thought partners and coaches to help you determine possible next steps.
- A consultation might include coaching on how to have a difficult conversation with a colleague or supervisor, clarifying your goals and expectations, or learning ways to give constructive feedback.
- During consultation, you’ll be able to discuss available trainings and workshops that can help your team or department learn more about respectful dialogue, collaboration and team building, and navigating conflict with more compassion, courage and confidence.
Facilitated dialogue
- Need a third-party neutral to help facilitate a conversation or meeting with another colleague or small group that you anticipate will be challenging for participants? Have previous attempts to discuss a thorny issue proven unproductive or frustrating? Facilitated dialogue may be the best path forward.
- Facilitated dialogue encourages parties to collaborate by sharing perspectives, identifying issues, and working toward a mutually agreeable path forward. EmPaCT’s trained specialists are there to guide and facilitate the process, ensure that everyone has an opportunity to speak, and support a more constructive conversation.
- During consultation, we can explain the process in more detail and help identify whether facilitated dialogue might be an appropriate option.
Trainings and workshops
- Our staff includes seasoned facilitators who can work with you to deliver high-impact, experiential offerings for your team or department. These skills-development trainings and workshops are designed to support a more thriving, inclusive culture within your group. Discuss these options with our team to learn more.
- Please click here for our current trainings and workshops, available virtually or in person.
*Please note that EmPaCT services are not intended to supersede or replace University Policy or any Collectively Negotiated Agreements. Rather, they are meant to provide support for creating and sustaining a healthy work environment. In addition, EmPaCT practices align with International Ombuds Association standards of informality, impartiality, and confidentiality except where University policies require mandatory reporting (Title IX, e.g.) and referral to other offices (OEE, UEC, etc.).