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TKI Assessment<\/h1>

From conflict management to mastery.<\/p><\/div><\/div>

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Service Overview<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n

The Thomas-Kilmann Instrument (TKI\u00ae) is one of the most widely used and rigorously validated conflict assessment tools in the world \u2014 and for good reason. The TKI identifies five distinct conflict-handling modes: Competing, Collaborating, Compromising, Avoiding, and Accommodating. Each mode represents a different approach to navigating disagreement \u2014 and each has its place, depending on the situation, the stakes, and the relationship involved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What the TKI reveals isn’t whether someone is “good” or “bad” at conflict. It surfaces something more nuanced and more useful: which modes an individual relies on most, which they underuse, and how those patterns play out in teams, under pressure, and during change. With that awareness comes real choice \u2014 and with real choice comes the possibility of something better than the conflict patterns that have always been there.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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