Recognize conflict situations
Analyze a decision scenario and explain the reasoning behind your approach.
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Managing Conflicts of Interest
Develop and document a proportionate conflict-management response. Build the skills through worked examples, guided exercises and a practical assignment.
6 connected modules1 integrated case1 practical assignment
IS THIS FOR ME?
Build capability where your work needs it.
Compliance and ethics practitioners designing disclosure, assessment and mitigation processes.
Recommended starting knowledge
Familiarity with your organization’s compliance responsibilities and business processes is helpful. Bring a development objective; we discuss suitability and preparation before enrolment.
WHAT YOU WILL BE ABLE TO DO
Leave with a workable approach.
Assess the decision context
Prepare a conflict assessment and explain the reasoning behind your approach.
Document and communicate decisions
Create a mitigation record and explain the reasoning behind your approach.
Review ongoing arrangements
Build a periodic review process and explain the reasoning behind your approach.
THE FULL SYLLABUS
Develop your approach, step by step.
Open a module to see the topics and practical work.
01Recognize conflict situations
Analyze a decision scenario.
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Recognize conflict situations
Analyze a decision scenario.
Topics we work through
- Personal interests and professional duties.
- Actual, potential and perceived conflicts.
- Apply these concepts to the course case and discuss evidence, assumptions and practical constraints.
Practice: Analyze a decision scenario. Record your choices and identify what needs further verification.
02Design useful disclosures
Draft a disclosure form.
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Design useful disclosures
Draft a disclosure form.
Topics we work through
- Information needed for assessment.
- Privacy, access and record boundaries.
- Apply these concepts to the course case and discuss evidence, assumptions and practical constraints.
Practice: Draft a disclosure form. Record your choices and identify what needs further verification.
03Assess the decision context
Prepare a conflict assessment.
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Assess the decision context
Prepare a conflict assessment.
Topics we work through
- Influence, materiality and relationships.
- Evidence and independent review.
- Apply these concepts to the course case and discuss evidence, assumptions and practical constraints.
Practice: Prepare a conflict assessment. Record your choices and identify what needs further verification.
04Choose mitigation
Compare mitigation options.
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Choose mitigation
Compare mitigation options.
Topics we work through
- Recusal, reassignment and oversight.
- Limits of disclosure alone.
- Apply these concepts to the course case and discuss evidence, assumptions and practical constraints.
Practice: Compare mitigation options. Record your choices and identify what needs further verification.
05Document and communicate decisions
Create a mitigation record.
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Document and communicate decisions
Create a mitigation record.
Topics we work through
- Authority, reasoning and conditions.
- Clear instructions to affected roles.
- Apply these concepts to the course case and discuss evidence, assumptions and practical constraints.
Practice: Create a mitigation record. Record your choices and identify what needs further verification.
06Review ongoing arrangements
Build a periodic review process.
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Review ongoing arrangements
Build a periodic review process.
Topics we work through
- Changes in roles or circumstances.
- Monitoring and closure evidence.
- Apply these concepts to the course case and discuss evidence, assumptions and practical constraints.
Practice: Build a periodic review process. Record your choices and identify what needs further verification.
Examples support professional learning. Applicable requirements and procedures must be confirmed for the organization and jurisdiction involved.
PUT IT INTO PRACTICE · FICTIONAL CASE
A real-world decision.
A reasoned response.
A procurement manager participates in a tender involving a supplier owned by a close relative, but believes disclosure alone resolves the concern.
Your challenge: Develop and document a proportionate conflict-management response.
Analyze a decision scenario.
Prepare a conflict assessment.
Build a periodic review process.
YOUR PRACTICAL ASSIGNMENT
A conflict assessment and mitigation record.
Bring the module exercises together into a practical deliverable for the fictional case, or an appropriately anonymized work context agreed with the instructor.
What your assignment includes
- Analyze a decision scenario.
- Draft a disclosure form.
- Prepare a conflict assessment.
- Compare mitigation options.
- Create a mitigation record.
- Build a periodic review process.
LEARNING AND ASSESSMENT
Show how you would apply it.
Learn through the case
Online explanations, worked examples and guided exercises connect the six modules. Instructor arrangements, access period and schedule are confirmed before enrolment.
Explain your reasoning
Knowledge checks and your practical assignment examine your ability to connect risks, responsibilities and evidence. Feedback addresses assumptions, feasibility and gaps.
Build toward the full certificate
This course is part of the proposed 18-course Compliance House Professional Certificate in Compliance Program Practice.
Explore the full program →Assessment and credential arrangements
The proposed course assessment combines knowledge checks with review of your practical assignment. Completion evidence, passing requirements, reassessment arrangements and recognition toward the full program will be confirmed before enrolment. Completing this course alone does not confer the full professional certificate.
The Academy certificate is issued by Compliance House; it is not an externally accredited qualification or ISO certification.
YOUR NEXT STEP
Make this learning relevant to your work.
Discuss individual participation or delivery for your compliance team. We will confirm suitability, duration, delivery format, assessment arrangements and fees before you commit.