Of the five styles, the relatively easiest to use are the avoiding and accommodating styles. We generally want to avoid using the forcing style. The most difficult to implement successfully, due to the complexity and level of skill needed, is the collaborative style. It is most likely to be underutilized when it would have been appropriate. Therefore, in order to develop your conflict skills, the collaborative style is the only one that we cover in detail in the next section. Recall that you learned how to negotiate in Chapter 5.