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Impact is multiplied through teamwork. Effective teams therefore are the foundation for achieving exceptional milestones. Having a team is beyond having a group of people who work together, it's about having different people who share the same values, zest, and goals.
Great results begin with team health. A healthy team will most likely achieve set goals and make high impact. Teams that are disoriented and uncommitted to one another or to team objectives don’t function at optimum levels. Such teams are simply dysfunctional. Dysfunctional teams sabotage its success and put the entire organization in a difficult situation. It's not what any manager wants. Below are 8 Signs you have a dysfunctional team and need to do something about it quickly.
Poor Communication
The absence of Effective communication is often the major drawback of unhealthy teams. Information is not consistent or not shared with other team members leading to operational errors and low productivity. It may also degenerate into misunderstanding, resentment, and infighting. Gossip and rumors thrive in the absence of access to the right information ,fueling, fragmentation, low morale,and decreased engagement.
Lack of Trust
Trust is the bedrock of team success. Dysfunctional team members doubt each other's intentions, expertise, or reliability. Lack of trust undermines team success. When team members don't trust each other, assume negative intentions, dread spending time together, don't ask for help from each other, and hide their mistakes from the rest of the team, they are dysfunctional and need quick intervention.
Conflict Avoidance
Team members avoid discussing difficult issues they think might lead to any form of conflict including healthy ones and this leads to unresolved problems and absence of innovation. Teams become comfortable with mediocrity for fear of hurting other people's feelings or being perceived in a certain way. Rather than offer diverse perspectives, they hold back from saying what they think and feel, and end up settling for whatever is put forward to them. This is in many ways counter-productive. Highly effective teams rely on multiple perspectives to raise their game. Highly effective team members understand their distinct roles, and respectfully challenge and debate ideas. Dysfunctional teams avoid debate to the detriment of the team.
Lack of Accountability
Team members don't realize the importance of their roles in the team so don’t live up to their responsibilities leading to low productivity and sometimes outright failures. They don’t take ownership of their actions, mistakes, or outcomes. They engage in blame games and assign responsibility for mistakes or failures to others. When team members tend to over-defend their behaviors and fail to assume responsibilities, dysfunction may have set in.
High Turnover
Team members leave the team or organization frequently. If the turnover is consistently very high, it’s often a strong sign that something is not right within the team.
Bad Response to Feedback
Feedback when properly evaluated and received leads to improved performance. When team members don’t appreciate constructive feedback from others choosing to rather ignore them,they remain on the same level of performance if not less. It's a proof of arrogance or insecurity which eventually leads to low productivity and repeat mediocrity.
Toxic Behavior
Team members are hostile to other people's ideas and opinions and consistently exhibit toxic behaviors like unnecessary criticism,bullying, harassment, or discrimination. They by their acts undermine team innovation while promoting an oppressive culture that sabotages the team's progress.
Stagnation
Growth is the foundation of high-impact performance. When team members shun self-improvement they end up running out of steam and unable to tackle new challenges effectively. If the team is not enthusiastic about learning, growing, or innovating they are most likely dysfunctional.
If your team displays several of these signs, it may be a strong indication of some specific underlying issues that need to be addressed to improve team health and productivity.
