Characterized by high assertiveness and high cooperativeness, collaborating involves attempting to find a solution to satisfy all team members’ concerns and fully satisfying both sides of an issue. You can study this behavior in-depth at the Idea Incubator blog post on Collaborating as a Team Conflict Management behavior.
Please also reference the 5 Types of Team Behaviors to learn more about conflict management. Other conflict management behaviors include: competing and accommodating.
For more new product definitions, please refer to the NPD Glossary.
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[...] posts, we have defined conflict and investigated the uses, overuses, and underuse of the competing, collaborating, and compromising behaviors. All of these were medium to high on the assertiveness scale in the [...]