Collaboration or Competition?
I attended an AHA Training Center forum a few weeks ago. I'm always learning something new and the vendors usually have great stuff to share. :) I had joined in on a conversation with a few instructors and we realized a few minutes into our discussion that one of them is a local instructor affiliated with a different training center than mine. She said to me "You're my competitor". Um... what? My first instinct was to say "No, we're colleagues. Not competitors." But it got me thinking afterwards. Why do instructors, and maybe business owners in general, look at others in their field as competitors? I've been teaching CPR and First Aid for almost 15 years, 8 of those as a small business. I've only run across one training center that has been somewhat competitive, undercutting and a little aggressive at times. I won't name them, that's not fair, but I've had folks in my classes who previously took a class with them and did...