Conflict styles and their consequences

Conflicts are often best understood by examining the consequences of various behaviors in moments in time. These behaviors are classified according to the benefit of conflict styles. Each style is designed to meet their needs in dispute, but may affect other people in different ways.

• The Contest is the style in which someones own needs are being promoted to the needs of others. It relies on an aggressive style of communication, lack of consideration for future relations, and the exercise of coercive measures. Those who use the competitive style tend to seek control of the discussion in the text basic rules. That fear the loss of control will result in solutions that do not meet their needs. Competition often leads to responses that increase the threat level.
• Adaption, also known as smoothing, is the antithesis of competition. People who use this style of action to meet their needs other people, trying to be diplomatic. They tend to leave the group must submerge their own, which never can say that the behavior of the compound is considered the most important. 
• Avoid common response to the negative perception of the conflict. Like cancer, which could be cured if treated early, the conflict grows and spreads until it kills the relationship. Since the needs and concerns are unspoken, people are often confused, wondering what had happened in the relationship.
• Collaborator is to combine the individual needs and goals towards a common goal. Often called "win-win, problem solving, communication requires cooperation and collaboration assertive in order to achieve a better solution than any individual could achieve alone. It offers the possibility of consensus, the need for integration and the potential to exceed".