When you engage others in positive conflict, you are telling them that he/she is important enough for you to invest some energy in improving the relationship, by challenging the sore points in it.

You are making others a big compliment by having a positive conflict with them!

Conflict is positive when it:

• Results in clarification of important problems and issues

• Results in solutions to individual or common problems

• Involves people together in resolving issues important to them

• Causes authentic communication

• Helps in working through emotion, anxiety, and stress

• Builds cooperation among people through learning the reciprocal limits about each other

• Helps individuals develop understanding of other’s positions and interpersonal skills.

• Provides recognition of each Other’s humanity.

So, you need to learn how to do conflict in a positive way, RIGHT?