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Trainer Kathy Galleher on Using Style Matters

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Description

The Kraybill Conflict Style Inventory

Style Matters is a five-styles-of-conflict inventory designed to help users deal more effectively with conflict.   Users take a fifteen-minute quiz and based on this get scores on five different responses to conflict.   Style Matters then guides users in using these scores to identify the strengths and dangers associated with their preferred styles.

Style Matters is based on the same Mouton-Blake framework as the well-known Thomas Kilmann Conflict Mode Inventory, so it is easy for trainers who've worked with the Thomas Kilmann to make the switch.

Features that bring many trainers and consultants to switch to Style Matters include:

  • Written in clear prose
  • Cultural adaptability. Users get differing instructions suited to their cultural background, either individualist or collectivist. This feature can be ignored in settings where this is not enough time to use it.
  • Differentiation between Calm and Storm settings recognizes that many people's response to conflict changes when emotions rise.
  • A full page of discussion questions makes it perfect for small group settings
  • Practical Tips to help each style function at its best - a full page for each style!
  • Free accompanying Trainers Guide
  • Available in print version, PDF file with rights to reproduce, or full-scale online version.
 

Optimize for learning

Train with tools designed by trainers and optimized for learning. Direct attention beyond numbers to core strengths, opportunities for growth, and strategic choices.

Prepare for diversity

Build conflict resolution skills in settings where managing differences is challenging. Use training tools with built-in cultural flexibility. Provide opportunities to discuss how diverse backgrounds shape habits in conflict.

Be practical

Ground learning in affirmation of existing strength. Give clear, simple feedback on areas of concern. Provide detailed suggestions for options to improve.

Be stress aware

Calm≠Storm. Recognize response to conflict as dynamic and not single state.  Give tools to manage the Storm Shift.

Be where they are

Provide multi-platform delivery of training. Support groups and teams scattered physically and working together online. Use time-saving web tools to facilitate learning for individuals, teams, or groups, in face-to-face workshops or online.

Work with limits

Price training materials in reach of all who need them. Reduce prep, coordination, and delivery time with trainer-friendly online tools. Deliver rich learning, on location or online, in less time, with less travel.

Take a long view

Expand the window of learning and support reflection before, during, and after workshops. Set up rich discussion in pairs, small groups, and large groups. Followup with resources for continued growth.  Facilitate journeys, not events.