Conflict Resolution Strategies Avoiding Examples: 10 Evidence-Based Coaching Practices
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Practices that may help
- Avoiding (unassertive, uncooperative)
Sidestep or postpone the conflict when timing is bad or the issue isn’t worth engaging.
The Five Conflict-Resolution Styles - Use Avoiding strategically, not reflexively
Avoiding has a real place — but only when the issue is trivial, the timing is wrong, or cooling down is necessary.
The Thomas–Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument (TKI) - Competing (assertive, uncooperative)
Pursue your own position firmly when speed, principle, or stakes outweigh the relationship cost.
The Five Conflict-Resolution Styles - Transform the relationship, not just the issue
Use each conflict as an opportunity to raise the quality of the relationship itself.
The Third Alternative, Made Practical - Separate the person from the problem
Treat the conflict as a problem you face together, not a contest you fight each other.
The Third Alternative, Made Practical - Engage in productive ideological conflict
Teams that avoid conflict don’t avoid disagreement — they bury it, where it grows into resentment and bad decisions.
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Made Practical - The Five Conflict-Resolution Styles
The Thomas-Kilmann model maps conflict behavior on two axes — how much you assert your own needs and how much you cooperate with the other’s — yielding five styles: competing, accommodating, avoiding, compromising, and collaborating. None is "best": each fits certain situations, and skill lies in choosing deliberately rather than defaulting to the one style you always reach for. The model is a widely used framework and instrument, not an outcome-tested intervention. - Responding to conflict without escalation
In a conflict, address the problem without attacking the person.
Ahimsa: Non-Violence as a Daily Practice - Accommodating (cooperative, unassertive)
Yield to the other’s needs when the issue matters far more to them than to you.
The Five Conflict-Resolution Styles - Choose your style deliberately
The real skill isn’t a favorite style — it’s matching the style to the situation instead of defaulting.
The Five Conflict-Resolution Styles
Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- There’s a problem I keep not bringing up
- We’re both too hot right now and I can feel that if we keep going one of us will say something we can’t take back
- Something’s genuinely wrong here and there’s no time to coax everyone to a comfortable yes
- We solve the immediate thing but the same ugly dynamic underneath stays exactly the same, so the next disagreement plays out identically
- Somewhere in this I stopped seeing a problem we both have and started seeing the other person AS the problem
Related concerns
- How To Avoid Conflict At Work Examples
Sidestep or postpone the conflict when timing is bad or the issue isn’t worth engaging.
Avoiding (unassertive, uncooperative)
- How To Deal With Avoiding Conflict
Sidestep or postpone the conflict when timing is bad or the issue isn’t worth engaging.
- Why Do I Hate Conflict
Sidestep or postpone the conflict when timing is bad or the issue isn’t worth engaging.
- Accommodating Conflict Resolution Technique
Accommodating is appropriate when you were wrong, the issue is trivial, or preserving the relationship outweighs your stake in the outcome.
Accommodate relationships — but not at the cost of important interests
- Avoidance In Conflict Resolution
Sidestep or postpone the conflict when timing is bad or the issue isn’t worth engaging.
- Avoiding Conflict
Sidestep or postpone the conflict when timing is bad or the issue isn’t worth engaging.
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