Conflict is healthy when it aims to improve the outcomes for the team. It's healthy when it's respectful and not personal. It's healthy when it's out in the open, visible to all members of the team, and available equally so everyone can safely participate. In unhealthy conflict, one person or group may attempt to assert power over another by talking over them, blaming, claiming superiority, or putting the other person down with negative statements. Unhealthy conflict rarely leads to a positive resolution without a neutral third party's intervention.