5 Conflict Styles - Free Template
A practical guide to the five conflict management styles - accommodating, avoiding, competing, collaborating, and compromising - with a short method for placing your team's default styles and choosing the approach a situation actually needs.
Based on our full guide to 5 Conflict Styles.
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What's in this 5 Conflict Styles template
The five styles mapped on the two scales, assertiveness and cooperativeness, with what each one is good for and what it costs.
A one-page summary: when to use the model, the steps for working through it as a team - from placing your own default style to agreeing how you'll handle the next conflict - and the traps to watch for, like treating collaborating as always right.
Tips for using it
Use this as a team exercise rather than just individual reflection - it's more useful when people can discuss their different defaults openly. Focus on situations rather than personalities, and remember that no single style is right for every context.
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