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RAPPORT-BUILDING5 MIN READ

Sort Conflict Moves by Mode

Recognize competing, avoiding, accommodating, compromising, and collaborating.

Push for the launch call because security risk is immediate Competing Postpone the debate until the missing data arrives Avoiding Yield on meeting time because the issue matters more to them Accommodating Split the budget so both pilots can start smaller Compromising Combine both teams' constraints into a new support model Collaborating Stop replying and hope the disagreement cools Sort each relationship behavior using Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument. The point is to see the relationship consequence, not memorize labels. Correct sorts focus on the observable effect on trust and collaboration. The trap is judging intent instead of classifying behavior.

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