Negotiating styles, like personalities, have a wide range of variation. The ten negotiating traits discussed above
can be placed on a spectrum or continuum, as illustrated in the chart below. Its purpose is to identify specific negotiating
traits affected by culture and to show the possible variation that each trait or factor may take. With this knowledge, you
may be better able to understand the negotiating styles and approaches of counterparts from other cultures. Equally
important, it may help you to determine how your own negotiating style appears to those same counterparts.