People & Leadership · Organizational Behavior

Friction or Fuel: Managing Diverse-Team Conflict

Halden & Rowe, a London consultancy, has won a £12m bank transformation programme sold on its “Inclusion Dividend” thesis — diverse teams outperform homogeneous ones, but only if the friction is managed.

4 rounds Executive English, Español

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About this simulation

Halden & Rowe, a London consultancy, has won a £12m bank transformation programme sold on its “Inclusion Dividend” thesis — diverse teams outperform homogeneous ones, but only if the friction is managed. You are the Project Lead.

Over four rounds you compose an 8-person delivery pod from a 14-candidate bench, diagnose three live disputes as task, process, or relationship conflict, intervene under a fixed time-and-attention budget, and then retain your most diverse hires and defend the realised Return on Inclusion at the Day-45 client checkpoint.

Learn the core distinction (task conflict is fuel up to a point, process conflict is mildly corrosive, relationship conflict is almost always friction), that diagnosis must precede intervention, that one playbook cannot fix three conflict types, and that inclusion is sustained — not composed once on Day 1.

Wrong strategies underperform: the safe homogeneous pod forfeits the dividend, misdiagnosis smothers the debate that improves the design, a one-size remedy makes two conflicts worse, and ignoring the roll-off signals collapses the pod back to the team you rejected.

Who it is for

An advanced simulation for participants used to working with the main frameworks and trade-offs of the subject, designed for executive education and experienced professionals.

How a session runs

  1. The instructor creates a session from the Eureka dashboard and invites the participants.
  2. Participants play 4 rounds. In each one they submit their decisions and the simulation calculates the results.
  3. The simulation can be run in English, Español.
  4. The instructor follows each participant's progress and results from the dashboard, and uses the class results for the debrief.

Decisions participants make

The decisions participants make during the simulation:

  • Conflict you expect to manage
  • Conflict type
  • Intensity (1–5)
  • Intervention
  • Attention points (0–3)
  • Retention move for the two roll-off risks
  • Day-45 checkpoint pitch to the bank
  • Your confidence the diverse pod beat a homogeneous one (1–5)

What participants track

What participants follow on screen as the rounds go by:

  • Facilitator Feedback

Subjects covered

Designed for courses in Organizational Behavior.

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