Is your team dysfunctional? 5 ways to tell – and what to do about it

If you are the manager of a dysfunctional team,

    1. There is constant interpersonal drama instead of strategic work.
    2. Your team simply cannot deliver Your projects are delayed if not altogether failing.
    3. Paradoxically, your team members are individually gifted but their collective output is subpar.
    4. Most of your time is spent mediating disputes rather than leading and delivering.
    5. You can tell that your manager and peers are unimpressed by the infighting they observe.

In this hellscape of Relationship Friction, you exhaust yourself.

You feel isolated and unsupported.

You tread water and you are doubting your judgement.

Your reputation is sinking.

A key insight I gained from Patrick Lencioni’s ‘The Five Dysfunctions of a Team’ is that “[g]reat teams admit their mistakes, their weaknesses, and their concerns without fear of reprisal”.

Today, this is an impossibility for you.

In your dysfunctional team, everyone is afraid. Including you.

And yet you are expected to foster trust, resolve conflict, elicit commitment and create accountability.

The way out: Relationship Wisdom.

Among others, I can guide you on how to:

      • Role model vulnerability as a strength to create psychological safety.
      • Ask for feedback and share your 360 findings to demonstrate your commitment.
      • Organise a workshop to constructively capture grievances and articulate solutions together.

This will allow you to steadily rebuild your team into the high-performing professionals they are.

You don’t have to suffer from Relationship Friction a moment longer.

Come discover and build out your Relationship Wisdom.

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