Trainer Kathy Galleher on Using Style Matters

Consultant Oma Drawas on Using Style Matters

What Trainers Say About Style Matters

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

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.