Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument (TKI^®)

Conflict can negatively affect productivity, decision making and retention. By resolving conflicts more effectively, you can strengthen your organisation and improve results. Make conflict management a core competency and create a satisfying and productive work environment throughout your enterprise.

Your organisation can use the TKI^® as the foundation for conflict literacy – for developing a common language that helps people think and communicate clearly about conflict and how to manage it through the opportunities provided for accepting differing viewpoints, enhancing communication and improving productivity, team cohesion and retention.

Take a moment to view the following video on the five conflict-handling styles.

The TKI^® assessment is ideal for a wide range of applications, including:

• Conflict management—to identify different conflict-handling styles and to learn how to choose the appropriate style for any situation
• Team building—improves team functioning by helping members reconcile differences and work together more effectively
• Leadership development—enhances leaders’ conflict management skills
• Performance improvement—helps eliminate barriers to effective performance
• Stress reduction—gives employees the capacity and tools to identify and manage workplace stress
• Retention—helps employees be successful, improve morale, and stay engaged in order to build a stronger organization and retain the best talent

• Offers five practical, situation-specific styles for dealing with conflict effectively
• Demonstrates how and when to use each conflict-handling style
• Improves organisational productivity by helping people gain insight into their own and others’ behaviour – which, in turn, helps them make better choices about outcomes
• Helps trainers, managers and other professionals open one-on-one or group discussions around conflict
• Reflects today’s gender, racial, ethnic, age and job-level diversity in the workplace, based on an updated normative sample
• The TKI^® is unrestricted and requires no special training to administer or interpret

A comprehensive suite of support materials is available to help you quickly and easily begin using the TKI^® tool. This product line gives you the knowledge and confidence to be an effective coach for your clients and to help them start managing conflict immediately and productively.

TKI^® Key Highlights

• Provides two options for assessment—TKI^® Profile and Interpretive Report (online) or self-scorable booklet (paper-and-pencil format)
• Offers a variety of support materials, including booklets, digital activities, and content-packed training programs to effectively deliver workshops

Please note that translations are available for selected TKI^® products and assessments in the following languages:

Chinese – Simplified and Chinese – Traditional