Free guide for professors, PIs and group leaders
Where do conflicts come from?
A guide to the seven sources you should know.
Most researchers do not like conflict. This free guide shows you where it actually starts in research teams, with real lab examples, and gives you a simple tool to address tension early, before it eats months of work.
- The seven sources of conflict, from personal chemistry to weak structures
- Real situations from research groups, so you can spot the pattern in yours
- Your first conflict resolution tool: the three step feedback model
Conflict = disagreement + unpleasant emotion
The definition the guide is built on. Once you see it, you spot conflicts much earlier.
By CJ Fitzsimons, PhD. 25 years coaching R&D leaders. Lead partner for EMBO lab leadership trainings.
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It is the most common sentence in research leadership. It is also the most expensive one. This guide is for the moment you stop believing it.
19 pages, with a printable one page overview for your next team meeting.
What is inside
- Interpersonal liking or rejection
- Different goals and approaches
- Power and control
- Different norms and values
- Language and communication
- Access to information
- Organisational weakness
Plus your first tool
The three step feedback model: state what you observed, state its impact, state the future behaviour you expect. Simple enough to use tomorrow morning.
2 yearsOne real case from the guide
That is how long one publication was delayed because a predoc kept data from a colleague. Conflicts in research groups rarely explode. They leak time, energy and results, quietly. Spotting the source early is the cheapest fix you will ever make.
The person behind the guide
CJ Fitzsimons, PhD, founder of Leadership Sculptor, has been coaching research leaders since 1999. He holds a PhD in Mathematics from Trinity College Dublin and spent over 15 years in R&D, including as Research Programme Director at ABB.
Since 2016 his team has been the lead partner for delivering EMBO lab leadership trainings internationally. Clients include leading research institutes across Europe and North America, as well as Airbus, BASF, Bayer and Daimler.
Prefer to talk it through?
CJ is back from his summer break on August 19 and is opening a handful of free 30 minute calls. Bring one real conflict from your group and leave with your next move.
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The guide gives you the map. A free 30 minute call gives you the next move for the exact situation in your group. CJ opens only a handful of slots after his summer break and the calendar is already filling. Do not wait for it to escalate.
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