Working with a Partner, Split the Roles Assigned Below

Initial Conflict Role PlayName: ______

Date: ______

Working with a partner, split the roles assigned below. Take 5 minutes to read your role and become familiar with it. Once both partners are familiar with their roles, try to solve the conflict you have with the other person.

D. McDonald

You are the COO (Chief Operating Officer) of the Aqua Corporation that provides safe drinking water technology and chemicals for many countries. Without your assistance, many of these countries would have unsafe drinking water.

You are on your way to an extremely important and critical business meeting with the ACME Wildlife Corporation. In order for you to provide safe drinking water, you need to purchase one million yerpa plants. The leaves of the yerpa plant are the main chemical base for your product. The problem is that the yerpa plant is an endangered species and ACME only has one million plants in inventory for the next five years.

As well, if you cannot obtain the necessary amount of yerpa plants, your company will go out of business. Two thousand people will lose their jobs. You know that the main competition for the purchase of yerpa plants is the Safefood Fertilizer Company. It also needs the one million plants. Sitting across from you in the airport on your way to the meeting with ACME is B. Jones the COO for Safefood. You are certain that he is going to meet with ACME to bid for the yerpa plant. You are going to try to convince Jones that it is more important for you to get the yerpa plants. This is a very critical conversation; those plants will save millions of lives if you are able to obtain them. Your task is to get as many of the yerpa plants as possible; to convince Jones that the plants should be sold to Aqua—YOU MUST HELP THESE PEOPLE!

B. Jones

You are the COO of the Safefood Fertilizer Company that provides low cost technology and farming products to many countries. Without your help, millions of people would not get the necessary food they need in order to survive.

You are on your way to an extremely important and critical business meeting with the ACME Wildlife Corporation. In order for you to provide fertilizer to help grow food, you need to purchase one million yerpa plants. The roots of the yerpa plant are the main chemical base for your product. The problem is that the yerpa plant is an endangered species and ACME only has one million plants in inventory for the next five years.

As well, if you cannot get the necessary amount of yerpa plants, your company will go out of business. Five thousand people will lose their jobs.

You know that the main competition for the purchase of yerpa plants is the Aqua Corporation. It also needs the one million plants. Sitting across from you in the airport on your way to the meeting with ACME is D. McDonald the COO for Aqua. You are certain that he is going to meet with ACME to bid for the yerpa plant. You are going to try to convince McDonald that it is more important for you to get the yerpa plants.

This is a very critical conversation; those plants will save millions of lives if you are able to obtain them. Your task is to get as many of the yerpa plants as possible; to convince McDonald that the plants should be sold to Safefood—YOU MUST SAVE THE LIVES OF THESE PEOPLE!