5 Conflict Styles - Free Template
A practical guide to the five conflict management styles - accommodating, avoiding, competing, collaborating, and compromising - with prompts to help you identify your default approach and choose more effective strategies.
Based on our full guide to the 5 Conflict Styles.
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What's in this 5 Conflict Styles template
An overview of each conflict style mapped on the assertiveness and cooperation axes, characteristics and trade-offs for each approach, and reflection prompts to help you and your team understand your patterns.
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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