Our department hired three new faculty this year and we're all supposed to be collaborative but there's this weird competition happening around course loads and research support that no one acknowledges. We smile in meetings and then I hear people complaining privately about who got what, and I'm doing it too.
More people experience this than they realize.
A group maintains the fiction of collegiality while resource scarcity creates underground conflicts that corrode their working relationships.
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Peri can explain why this happens, help you decide if this is the right situation for you, and point toward the right journey or coach.
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