What Is Your Conflict Style?
ASHLYN ANN FRIEND
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO BOULDER
OFFICE OF STUDENT CONDUCT AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION
303-492-5550
[email protected]
Learning Objectives
• Participants will be able to articulate the importance of conflict.
• Participants will be able to identify their primary conflict style
and gain an awareness of how it can be applied most
effectively.
What Is Conflict?
Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode
Instrument
• Kenneth Thomas and Ralph
Kilmann
• Abbreviated version of full
assessment (30 forced
answer questions)
• No “right” style
Personal Concerns
Personal Goals
Assertiveness
Competing
Collaborating
Compromising
Avoiding
Accommodating
Cooperativeness
Other Person’s Goals
Concern for Relationship
Benefits?
Drawbacks?
Needs?
It’s Not About The Nail
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4EDhdAHrOg
Questions?
Office of Student Conduct & Conflict Resolution
303-492-5550
[email protected]