This exercise will prepare you for thinking about the importance of decision making and conflict resolution in everybody’s life. As you engage in the negotiation with your "web partner", you will learn that the negotiation process is a decision making process and that decisions that you and your opponent make focus on conflict resolution.

Take 15 minutes to write about the most difficult decision you have ever made. When writing try to address the following questions: When was it? What was the nature of the conflict that made this decision so difficult? How did you make this decision? How long did it take you to make it? Why? Did your decision affect other people? How? Did you ask anybody for advice? Are/were you happy with the outcome? Why?

Working in groups of three, read your entries out loud and decide how each one of you approached the conflict, that is:

What strategies did each one of you use to make the decision?
For example, did you make a list of pros and cons?
Did you ask other people for advice?
Did you leave it to faith?