Stages of Conflict Escalation Recognize the beginning stages of arguements and disagreements. Helps you to understand how to derrail and avoid senseless arguements. Fundamentally this is the beginning of building up unnecessary negative emotions.
Explains how different conflict styles work. Illustrates and explains how "competing" personalities listen to collect information to prove you wrong, while "avoiders" go to extreme to side-step, while "accommodating" personalities are so fixed on making others happy they create discontent.
"Agitators" want to distroy others, therefore they tend to escalate arguements until they do significant damage to the relationship. "Collaborators" want to "labor" to find common ground; "Compromisers" want to barter and tend to "give-in-take".