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Help! My Team is Broken... You are not alone

Guest post by: John Grubbs

Article Overview: What does communication, or lack there-of, cost your company each year? How many people on your team, at the moment you are reading this email, are doing a task that in some way will have to be reworked or redone? Funny, we always seem to have time to do things "right" the second time around.

Help! My Team is Broken... You are not alone

What does communication, or lack there-of, cost your company each year? How many people on your team, at the moment you are reading this email,are doing a task that in some way will have to be reworked or redone? Funny, we always seem to have time to do things "right" the second time around. Companies attempting to cut costs during tough economic times makes business sense. Yet, most companies do NOTHING to improve communication on the team. We tend to assume (we know what that does) communication is effective. Think of it this way, what major issue last year was not in some way rooted inpoor communication or a lackof communication? Also, as stress impacts our business, conflict tends to become more prevalent. Many individuals simply don't know how to handle difficult people or conflict. We tend to be much better at talking "about" people rather than "to" people. Finally, accountability and trust are often optional when teams are dysfunctional. Wedon'tprovide activities nor leadership examples to strengthen trust on the team. Following are five symptoms of a costly teamwork disease: 1) Communication exists in silos. People build coalitions that prevent honest and meaningful communication. 2) Conflict is common. A lack of goal alignment creates effort that works against each team member rather than with each team member. 3) Stress levels are very high. People walk around "on edge" with a hair-trigger temper. The higher you are in organization - the bigger your weapon. 4) Trust is absent. People do not work to build and maintain trust mainly because they simply don't know how. 5) Accountability exists only in the latest book to cross the manager's desk. We talk a good talk but we simply don't know the difference between accountability and blame. Sound familiar? If three or more of these are present with your team, you are spending a fortune.

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