Negotiation & conflict styles guide
Five negotiation and conflict styles
What is a negotiation/conflict style?
Your dominant pattern when interests clash—from competing to collaborating. Knowing it supports deliberate choices in sales, teams, and family.
Five common styles
- Competing: insisting on your own outcome
- Collaborating: seeking win-win
- Accommodating: prioritizing the relationship
- Avoiding: stepping back from direct conflict
- Compromising: splitting interests to move forward
How should you answer?
- Think about your usual pattern in recent weeks and months.
- Be honest; the result is for self-knowledge and growth, not a score to win.
- If you are between two options, pick the one closer to reality.
How is the result useful?
- See strengths and growth areas meaning-first
- Act more deliberately at work, in relationships, and in learning
- Continue self-knowledge with articles and behavioral tests
Note: Academy assessment adapted for compatibility with the official version; no style is inherently good or bad—fit to context matters.
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Frequently asked questions
Common questions about tests, reports, and academy services — short and clear.
What is Negotiation and how does this page help?
Know your dominant conflict style and choose more deliberately at work and in life
How is the result useful?
Results support self-awareness, team dialogue, and better role or learning choices; they are not a clinical diagnosis.
How do I start the assessment?
Use the “Start the negotiation assessment†button on this page, or open the hamburger menu, choose “Self-knowledgeâ€, and start the assessment from the list.