Two Step for Conflict Avoiders

When voices rise and conflict escalates, do you step forward and engage?  Or step back and assess? T...

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Intro to Conflict Styles Podcast

Organizational psychologist and podcaster Meisha Rouser has posted an interview, "Exploring Conflict...

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Use This Powerful Force for Change

By adopting practices of interaction largely stripped of symbols and moments to engage Depth, we cut...

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Can We Market Peace?

 Conflict resolution and human development people could learn a lot from business marketers.  W...

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Conflict as Spiritual Path

Conflict style awareness is truly useful in day-to-day management of differences.  It's easy to lear...

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Conflict Styles Training at Distance

[Written three years before the pandemic, this post is more relevant than ever now that most trainin...

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Don't Resolve Conflict, Utilize It

If you like the conflict styles framework and want compatible tools to build the capacity of your or...

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Trainers Guide to Conflict Styles

  Just re-released: my Trainers Guide to Successful Conflict Styles Workshop. Now 38 pages in the 20...

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Trump and Conflict Styles

We can Learn a Lot from Trump about Conflict Styles The weekend brought a textbook example of under-...

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Too Ticked to Talk Nice

  You can't do conflict resolution without doing anger management. Anger is an emotion that eve...

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Things fall apart. How to respond?

These are scary times, and it's not just COVID19.  Polarization is rooted now in ways not exper...

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How Does Conflict Style Shape Destiny?

I spent much of the last month writing new text for the score report of Style Matters. That’s the 10...

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Two Conflict Style Workshop Designs

Trainers often ask: how much time to budget for a conflict styles workshop?   It depends! Traditiona...

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Can You Lead in Emergencies?

Can you lead in times of emergency?  Don’t think that's for someone else.  Life exempts none from th...

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Infographics on Online Training

  If you expect to do conflict styles training with Style Matters online, take a minute to scan...

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Pyramid of Conflict Resolution Skills

  The Pyramid of Conflict Resolution Skills What is the connection between interpersonal conflict re...

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Teambuilding Exercises

Isolation and polarization are big threats today.    We can't take collegiality and community for gr...

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Conflict Styles in Spanish

We're pleased to announce that, thanks to many requests for it, the Style Matters conflict style inv...

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New Trainer's Guide

If you're planning a workshop using Style Matters Online, see the new Training Outline for Style Mat...

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Plan Teambuilding Now

It's easy in team settings to get so focused on performance, planning, and budgets that you forget t...

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