Why the Conflict Dynamics Profile® (CDP) is a game changer for leadership and teams
Conflicts are inevitable – but how we respond to them determines cooperation, trust, and performance. The Conflict Dynamics Profile® (CDP) reveals precisely that: our emotions and the specific behaviors associated with them in conflicts. The CDP is a scientifically standardized and long-term evidence-based method.
What are the benefits of the CDP?
- Clarity about your own emotions and their effects on conflict behavior
- It reveals individual emotional triggers and behavioral patterns – both constructive and destructive, active and passive – and makes solution options and blind spots visible.
- More effective leadership: Leaders recognize how their reactions in conflicts influence dynamics among individuals and within the team, and how they can de-escalate and resolve conflicts.
- Strengthened team communication: Teams better understand why conflicts arise, escalate, or are resolved—and develop joint strategies.
- Improved conflict competence: Concrete recommendations for action turn conflict response from chance to skill. Conflict competence is widely regarded internationally as one of the top key competencies in collaboration and leadership.
- Prevention instead of escalation: The CDP identifies emotional triggers (“hot buttons”) and thus the stressors that have the greatest influence in conflicts and are therefore important for conflict resolution.
- Mediation instead of polarization: The CDP is more than just a profiling tool specializing in conflict competence (self-assessment to 360-degree feedback); it is also a diagnostic and development tool for individuals and teams. It has also been used successfully for years in concrete conflict and crisis intervention.
- Transformation of collaboration and leadership cultures: The CDP has also become a proven tool in transformation processes and in shaping leadership cultures in many countries.
✨ Why it is particularly effective
The CDP is not based on personality types, but on emotional triggers, their chains of effects on conflicts, and the associated observable behaviors. This makes it practical, developable, and immediately implementable.
For anyone who wants to take leadership, teamwork, and collaboration to the next level—a proven tool without frills and with clear results.