Now available online!
By answering 20 questions online and get an eight page report with your conflict styles profile.
Built-in Cultural Adaptability with The Kraybill Conflict Style Inventory
We all experience painful differences with others as a part of every day life. Perhaps more than any other challenge in life, our ability to work out differences with others affects our ability to live well and be happy. Yet most of us get little thoughtful guidance from parents and teachers on how to do this. We figure out a few things by trial and error, but we are often confused and hurt by what happens in conflict situations. Style Matters shows users their preferred style of conflict management and provides detailed suggestions for each style.
This exciting new inventory gives specific, practical help for dealing with differences. In a handful of pages, you will get more help than most of us get in a lifetime of learning. The information learned can help you understand confusing situations and make a real difference in the quality of relationships in work, home, school, and community settings.
So how do you respond to conflict?
Most people aren't sure how to answer. It is often easier to describe how others respond than how we ourselves respond. Style Matters gives you a snapshot of yourself.
Why trainers love The Kraybill Conflict Style Inventory
• Style Matters uses a clear ‘five-styles-of-conflict’ framework (the Mouton-Blake Grid) familiar to many trainers. If you have previously worked with other five-style inventories such as the Thomas-Kilmann™ you won’t have to learn a whole new framework
• No forced choice questions!
• Respectful towards users. Honours the strengths of all styles while increasing user awareness of the limits of each and the costs of over-reliance on one style
• Step-by-step Trainer’s Guide makes it easy to plan workshops–call us for more details (No Trainer's Guide to buy! You'll be emailed a free downloadable Trainer's Guide with your first order)
• Crosscultural option (included in all versions but can be ignored in settings where not needed) gives Style Matters a credible feel to people from diverse cultural backgrounds and helps groups talk about cultural differences
• A full page of tips for each style gives clear guidance on how to bring out the best in others
• Great discussion questions at the end of each booklet. Put people in small groups and watch discussions take off with proven starters.
Score report gives detailed suggestions for optimising your responses to conflict.
Simple graphics and clear text take you quickly and effortlessly through the fundamentals of conflict styles. Free online tutorial available for indepth study.
What you get with Style Matters Online:
⇒ Eight pages of personalised advice.
Take a short online survey and get an immediate report, packed with no-nonsense feedback. Our software analyses your scores, highlights your strengths, alerts you to things to watch out for, and gives specific suggestions for improving your conflict style.
⇒ Storm Shift assessment.
Does your behaviour change as things escalate from mere disagreement to high intensity conflict? Does stress in your environment trigger unexpected responses from you towards people around you? A Storm Shift, even a big one, is not necessarily a problem, if you recognise the response and manage it. But if you don't, confusion and mistrust will grow. Learn your patterns and manage your Storm Shift.
⇒ Guidance for partners.
The "Partner Support" section provides detailed suggestions for partners and friends. Use this for rewarding conversation with people you live or work with. They'll understand you better and know how to help you function at your best.
⇒ Interactive tutorial enables independent learning.
Includes all the content covered in most training workshops: basics of the five styles, strengths and weaknesses of each, and how to work with people whose styles differ from yours.
⇒ Practical tips show you next steps.
Get specific suggestions you can use immediately in your relationships, based on your scores. Trying to be nice isn't always the answer. Style Matters helps you assess what really matters and act accordingly.
⇒ Online resources put expertise at your fingertips.
Get new ideas on anger management (How to express it constructively), apology (Why apologising too soon can make things worse), conflict resolution, culture and conflict, training, and more. Connect to resources and people working on issues you care about.
⇒ Cultural adaptability.
Works for people from a variety of cultural background (thanks to Edward T. Hall's concept of High Context and Low Context cultures).
