Conflict Style Test

Understand how you handle disagreement, tension, and competing interests — and when your default approach works for or against you.

What this test measures

The Thomas-Kilmann model maps conflict behaviour across two dimensions: assertiveness (concern for your own outcomes) and cooperativeness (concern for the other party's outcomes). The five resulting modes — Competing, Collaborating, Compromising, Avoiding, and Accommodating — each represent a different strategy for handling conflict. All five are appropriate in some situations and counterproductive in others. The goal is not to eliminate your default style but to understand it — and to expand your range when situations call for something different.

What the Conflict Style Test measures

Your answers are scored across 5 core dimensions:

• Competing

  You can advocate strongly for your position when you need to, but you temper that advocacy with enough flexibility to read when a softer approach will work better. You compete when the stakes are high and the situation is zero-sum, and you can shift when it is not.

• Collaborating

  Collaborative problem-solving is a genuine strength in your conflict repertoire. You seek integrative solutions when the relationship and the issues both warrant it, and you can shift to other modes when time or stakes make full collaboration impractical.

• Compromising

  Compromise is a useful gear in your conflict repertoire. You deploy it when full collaboration is not practical and when both parties have legitimate interests that cannot all be met simultaneously. You can also step out of compromise mode when the situation calls for something else.

• Avoiding

  You know how to create space between a provocation and a response, and there are conflicts you correctly identify as not worth engaging. The distinction between strategic withdrawal and habitual avoidance is worth examining — you are more likely to be doing the former than someone who scores highly on this dimension.

• Accommodating

  You are genuinely considerate of others' interests in conflict and are willing to yield on issues where the other party's needs are greater or the relationship is more important than the specific point. You do not do this reflexively — you can hold your ground when it genuinely matters.

How it works

1. Answer 25 questions honestly — there are no right or wrong answers.
2. Takes about 7 minutes. No signup, no email, no account.
3. Get your full result instantly — no paywall, no upsell, no teaser.
4. Your answers are encoded into your results link, not stored on our servers.

How to read your results

Results from the Conflict Style Testare for self-reflection and personal insight. No personality test captures the full complexity of a person, and your result is a snapshot of how you answered today — not a fixed label. Use it as a starting point for understanding patterns in how you think, decide, and relate to others, then take what resonates and leave what doesn’t.

For self-reflection and educational purposes only. Not a substitute for professional advice, diagnosis, or treatment.