What team dysfunction looks like... and how to overcome it.

Leading a dysfunctional team should be every Leaders worst nightmare, however many Leaders are doing so unknowingly, lacking the knowledge and tools to identify what dysfunction even looks like, and harder yet, identifying it's root causes.

As written in her article 'How to build success teams', Executive Leadership & Team Coach Dagmara Asbreuk identifies a number of symptoms present in team dysfunction.

From misalignment and inefficiency, blame culture and high attrition, dysfunctional teams many present with a few or many of these symptoms. Although these symptoms arise as the result of different processes, behavioural and strategic issues within an organisation, they all trace back to the root of Leadership.

Ultimately your Leadership has the power to cause or overcome team dysfunction. Without their accountability & involvement in rectifying dysfunction, limited progress is possible.

Building effective and well connected teams begins with awareness and accountability, at all levels. As Leaders, it's critical we view ourselves as part of the problem and the solution, not above or beside them. This empowers us as organisations and Leaders to truly co-create cultures build around mutual respect, value creation and inclusion.

Highlighted by Dagmara in her aforementioned article, to overcome dysfunction and build successful teams that thrive, Leaders need both a mindset capable of change and a strategic focus on developing the following:

• Creating a psychologically safe workplace environment
• Building strong relationships in implicit trust
• Ability to steer alignment at all levels
• Utilisation of diversity through cultural and strategic diversity, equity & inclusion policy.
• Conscious effort to capitalise on individual employee strengths
• Holding productive conflict and space for challenging status quo
• Driving affective commitment and personal accountability
• Unleashing potential and growing talent capacity

With the right awareness, knowledge and tools Leaders have the capacity to overcome dysfunction and drive change to build connected and effective organisational teams.

We invite you to join us at Human Leaders, this Wednesday March 16th 2022 as we host Dagmara Asbreuk exclusively within our Leadership community to drive a live learning session around using communication as a tool to connect and build successful teams.

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