Introduction to Conflict Styles
This report tallies your answers in the conflict style inventory to show your patterns in conflict. It’s designed around two key choices underlying our responses in conflict:
Goals |
Relationship |
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How hard do we push for things we want? We can have high focus on goals (regarding an issue, decision, or task) or low focus. ![]() |
How hard do we try to please others and keep relationships strong? We can have low focus on relationships or high focus. |
These two factors interact to give five styles of responding to conflict, each with important benefits, each with significant costs if over-used. Your scores indicate the styles you use most and least. You can view a short visual presentation of the styles here and review the benefits and dangers of each style here.