Course Details
Course Details
What You'll Learn
Topic 1: Identifying Conflicts
Assess conflict situation
Causes of conflict
Determine ways to validate information and history of conflict
Identify the possible causes of conflict
Recognise factors and early indicators that give rise to conflicts
Topic 2: Conflict Resolution Strategies
Resolution strategies to resolve conflicts
Analyse and decide on the best resolutions
Communication and negotiation skills for managing team conflicts
Conflict resolution process and deal with conflicts sensitively
Topic 3: Managing Team Conflicts in Workplace
Scope of responsibilities to manage team conflicts
Possible benefits of team conflict
Resolving team conflict
Organisational policies and procedures to manage conflicts
Coaching team members to resolve conflict
Topic 4: Reviewing the Effectiveness of Conflict Resolution and Preventing Conflict Recurrence
Review the effectiveness various conflict resolution strategies
Actions to prevent conflict recurrence
Legal and ethical considerations relating to conflict management
Assessment
- Written Exam
- Practical Exam
Course Info
Minimum Entry Requirement
Knowledge and Skills
- Able to operate using computer functions
- Minimum 3 GCE ‘O’ Levels Passes including English or WPL Level 5 (Average of Reading, Listening, Speaking & Writing Scores)
Attitude
- Positive Learning Attitude
- Enthusiastic Learner
Experience
- Minimum of 1 year of working experience.
Funding Eligibility Criteria
Self-sponsored learners (individuals)
- Singapore Citizens and Singapore Permanent Residents aged 21 and above.
- Up to 50% course fee funding. Singapore Citizens aged 40 and above receive up to 70% under the Mid-career Enhanced Subsidy (MCES).
- Singapore Citizens aged 25 and above can pay the remaining fee with SkillsFuture Credit.
Company-sponsored learners
- Singapore Citizens and Singapore Permanent Residents who are direct employees of the sponsoring company.
- Up to 50% course fee funding, or up to 70% for employees of SMEs (Enhanced Training Support for SMEs) and for Singapore Citizens aged 40 and above. An SME has no more than 200 employees or an annual turnover of no more than $100 million.
- Employers can also claim Absentee Payroll funding for employees who attend during working hours.
- Eligible companies can offset their out-of-pocket fees with SkillsFuture Enterprise Credit (SFEC).
Conditions for all funded learners
- Attendance is taken digitally with Singpass for every session, including the assessment.
- You must complete the course and pass all assessments (assessed as Competent).
- If these conditions are not met, the funding is clawed back and the learner or employer pays the full course fee.
- 9% GST is charged on the full course fee before funding.
- Promo and discount codes cannot be used on funded courses.
- Any balance after funding can be paid in cash, with SkillsFuture Credit, with PSEA (Singapore Citizens with a PSEA), or partly reimbursed by UTAP for NTUC members.
How to Apply SkillsFuture Credit Claim for Individuals
Singapore Citizens aged 25 and above can use their SkillsFuture Credit (base tier) to pay the course fee after funding. The $4,000 mid-career top-up cannot be used for this course.
- Register for this course as self-sponsored and tell us you will use SkillsFuture Credit. Do not pay the amount you plan to claim.
- We email you an invoice showing the course fee after funding.
- From 60 days before the course starts, and no later than the course start date, log in to MySkillsFuture with Singpass and click Claim credits.
- Click Submit a Claim and search for this course by its course code, TGS-2023021752.
- Select your class start date, enter the course fee payable after funding and the amount of credit to claim, then upload the invoice (PDF, JPG or PNG, under 4MB).
- Review, accept the terms and click Agree and Submit. The credit is paid directly to us; processing can take up to 14 working days.
Changing or withdrawing: cancel the claim on MySkillsFuture at least one day before the course starts. If your class date changes, cancel the claim and submit a new one with the new date.
How to Apply SkillsFuture Enterprise Credit (SFEC)
SFEC helps companies pay for employee training. The current SFEC ends on 30 November 2026, and a redesigned SFEC starts on 1 December 2026.
Current SFEC: classes ending on or before 30 November 2026
- Eligible companies received a one-off $10,000 credit, notified by letter to their Corppass administrator. Eligibility generally required at least 3 Singapore Citizen or PR employees and Skills Development Levy contributions.
- SFEC covers up to 90% of the company's out-of-pocket course fee after other subsidies.
- Check your company's SFEC eligibility and balance on EnterpriseSG.
- Register your Singapore Citizen or PR employee for a class that ends by 30 November 2026, as company-sponsored, and pay the course fee after funding.
- Your employee attends and completes the course. We submit the attendance and assessment results to SWDA.
- No separate claim is needed. SFEC is calculated automatically once the course fee grant is approved and is paid quarterly to your company's IRAS GIRO or PayNow Corporate account.
Any unused balance of the current SFEC expires on 30 November 2026.
Redesigned SFEC from 1 December 2026
Companies with at least 3 resident employees receive a fresh $10,000 in an online SFEC wallet that offsets out-of-pocket fees upfront at enrolment, instead of reimbursing them afterwards. SWDA has not yet published the support rates and claim steps; see OurWorkforce or our SFEC guide.
How to Apply UTAP (NTUC Members)
NTUC members can claim 50% of the unfunded course fee under the Union Training Assistance Programme (UTAP), capped at $250 a year (aged below 40) or $500 a year (aged 40 and above). The cap is shared with UTAP claims for AI tool subscriptions.
Eligibility: you must be an NTUC member paying full membership fees, with your membership paid up before and during the course and when you claim. The course must not be fully paid for by your employer or another source.
- Make sure your NTUC membership is paid up before the course starts.
- Register for this course with us and pay the course fee after funding and SkillsFuture Credit.
- Attend at least 75% of the course and sit all assessments.
- Within 6 months after the course ends, go to the NTUC U Portal, open UTAP under E-services, log in with Singpass and choose Course Fee Claim.
- Enter the nett course fee you paid (after all subsidies and SkillsFuture Credit, including GST), and upload your invoice or receipt and your certificate or result slip (PDF, JPG or PNG, up to 5MB each).
- NTUC usually pays the claim within 4 weeks of submission.
Read more in our UTAP guide.
How to Apply PSEA
Singapore Citizens with a Post-Secondary Education Account (PSEA), which stays open until around the year you turn 31, can use it to pay the course fee after funding for PSEA-approved courses. You can also use a sibling's PSEA after your own has been used up.
- Check that this course shows the PSEA tag on its MySkillsFuture page.
- Check your PSEA balance on MOE's Student Finance System with Singpass.
- Download and complete the PSEA withdrawal form, then submit it to us.
- We submit the withdrawal request to MOE. You (and your sibling, if you are using their account) authorise it in the Student Finance System. Nothing is withdrawn without this authorisation.
- MOE pays us directly. If you have already paid, we refund the amount covered by PSEA.
More details: MOE PSEA overview.
Appeal Process
If you disagree with an assessment decision, you have the right to appeal.
- When the assessor gives you feedback, say whether you agree with the outcome. If you agree, you and the assessor sign the Assessment Summary Record; if you disagree, do not sign it.
- Discuss the decision with the assessor or the assessment manager first.
- If you are still not satisfied, tell the assessor you intend to appeal. The assessor records this in the feedback section of the Assessment Summary Record and informs the assessment manager.
- Lodge your appeal within 7 days, giving your reasons, using the Candidate Appeal Form. The assessor can help you write and lodge it.
- An Assessment Appeal Panel reviews the information from you and the assessor and makes a decision. A record of the appeal and its outcome is kept.
- You will be told the outcome within 2 weeks of lodging the appeal. The panel's decision is final.
Job Roles
Job Roles
- Human Resources Manager
- Team Leader/Supervisor
- Project Manager
- Department Head
- Operations Manager
- Customer Service Manager
- Employee Relations Specialist
- Organizational Development Consultant
- Mediator or Arbitrator
- Corporate Trainer
- Executive Manager/Director
- Office Manager
- Employee Engagement Specialist
- Union Representative
- Diversity and Inclusion Officer
Trainers
Trainers
Patrick Oh brings a consultant's view of conflict to this course: disagreements at work are rarely about personalities alone, and they are usually resolved by understanding interests, facts and responsibilities. A Singapore Certified Management Consultant listed by TUV SUD and the principal behind SG Venture Consulting, he works as a governance, risk and compliance (GRC) consultant and advises organisations on performance management, solutions design and corporate compliance. He is CIPM certified by the IAPP and has provided Singapore PDPA consultancy for more than 13 years, according to a training-provider trainer profile. He is also an implementer and auditor of ISO management systems, including quality, environmental and ISO 14064 greenhouse gas accounting systems, and he is involved in community development and sustainability practice. Before consulting he worked for years as an automation design engineer, a background that shaped his habit of tracing a problem back to its root cause rather than treating its symptoms.
These strands map directly onto the course. Compliance, audit and change engagements routinely put Patrick between stakeholders whose priorities pull in different directions, so the topics on assessing a conflict situation, validating information and its history, and recognising early indicators reflect situations he deals with in practice. When learners explore resolution strategies, communication and negotiation for team conflicts, he frames them the way an adviser must: listening to every party, separating positions from underlying needs and handling sensitive issues with discretion. The final topic on the scope of responsibilities for managing team conflicts connects naturally with his governance and performance management work, where clear roles and agreed processes prevent many disputes from starting at all. By the end of the course, learners can diagnose the causes of a conflict, choose a suitable resolution approach, conduct the difficult conversation with confidence and put measures in place that protect collaboration and keep the team focused on shared results.
Terence Ee is an experienced CIO and IT leader with more than 25 years in technology management, government systems planning and organisational leadership. He has served as Chief Information Officer at the Supreme Court of Singapore and Vice President of Information Systems at Senoko Energy, where he led large teams through digital transformation and organisational change. Since 2017 he has worked as an independent consultant and ACLP-certified trainer, focusing on leadership and collaboration in the workplace, and his facilitation emphasises case studies, simulations and hands-on practice.
In this WSQ course on conflict resolution, Terence shares strategies for addressing and resolving conflict within cross-functional and high-pressure teams, drawing on his experience of leading people through change. Learners assess conflict situations, recognise early indicators, and validate the history and causes of a dispute before choosing a resolution strategy. He provides practical approaches to communication, negotiation and consensus-building, and explores the manager's scope of responsibility, organisational policies and how to coach team members to resolve conflict themselves. The course closes with reviewing the effectiveness of resolutions and preventing recurrence. His pragmatic, experience-driven teaching helps participants manage conflict with confidence while maintaining team cohesion, trust and productivity.
Ken Hiong is a finance and business analyst turned trainer with over 20 years of experience in the healthcare and pharmaceutical industry, where he held functional and managerial roles in sales, marketing, business development, finance, business analysis and planning. His career includes roles at Pfizer Singapore, Pharmacia and SciGen, partnering with management teams on financial analysis, planning and stakeholder alignment. He graduated with a Pharmacy degree and holds a Master of Business Administration from the National University of Singapore and a Master of Applied Finance from the University of Adelaide.
Ken has conducted WSQ programmes in Microsoft Office, Power BI and workplace communication, and in conflict resolution training he integrates analytical thinking with interpersonal communication. In this course, he guides learners in identifying conflict triggers and early indicators, validating the causes and history of a conflict, and applying structured problem-solving to choose the most suitable resolution strategy. Participants practise communication and negotiation techniques for team conflicts, consider organisational policies and the coaching of team members, and learn to review how well a resolution has worked so that conflicts do not recur. His learner-centric approach helps participants build the confidence and skills to manage conflict constructively, strengthening teamwork and organisational success.
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