Sara, a group leader working on a college project, meets her team members three times a week in order to discuss topics relevant to the team's tasks. Unfortunately, her team members have realized that she focuses the team's discussion on topics of her own interest rather than on those connected to their needs or the goals of their project. It seems Sara is playing one of the four dysfunctional self-oriented roles called

Sara, a group leader working on a college project, meets her team members three times a week in order to discuss topics relevant to the team's tasks. Unfortunately, her team members have realized that she focuses the team's discussion on topics of her own interest rather than on those connected to their needs or the goals of their project. It seems Sara is playing one of the four dysfunctional self-oriented roles called

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