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Scenario

How teams handle toxic dynamics when leadership won't intervene

Our research team has one member who dominates every meeting and dismisses ideas from the junior researchers, but they're brilliant and productive so our department head won't address it. The rest of us have started having separate meetings just to get our actual work done, and I can feel us fracturing.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A group is fragmenting because they cannot directly address a power imbalance that authority figures refuse to acknowledge.

Your guide for this
Juana
Juana works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
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Peri

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