I really enjoy questionnaires that tell you what kind of person you are. I always find some on the internet and see if they are actually right and most times they are! Today we did a questionnaire on what our negotiation style was.
My results were:
Competing 20
Accommodating 19
Collaborating 24
Avoiding 19
Compromising 20
From my results you can see that I prefer Collaborating the most and Accommodating and Avoiding the least.
I think this is quite accurate because I would rather work together so both sides are happy. I think finding a solution together is a win-win situation because both sides get half of what they want, which is more fulfilling than nothing at all and a good relationship is maintained. I think this contradicts accommodating though and I don't really know how you can collaborate without accommodating a little bit. I would almost never avoid things because sometimes things that avoid come back as being an even bigger problem than before or both sides can feel uneasy because nothing has been said. I wonder if this Collaborating style actually works though because in business everyone is looking out for their own company so I think the Competing style is used often. In my Global Governance class we looked at how a company worked together with UNICEF to give out mosquito nets for free. Maybe with NGO's its more common.
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Your result for the negotiation styles was very similar to mine, and those of my discussion group members for 10/2. Maybe it is because we have done a lot of the win-win negotiations during class, we are more conscious of collaborating.
ReplyDeleteThanks Izumi,
ReplyDeleteNarumi's point above is interesting. I too wonder if all the negotiation work we did caused you to think more collaboratively on this questionnaire. I suppose it is a good thing, that these values are being embedded!