TOXIC TEAMS

TOXIC TEAMS

1. POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS

   • Leaders must initiate crucial conversations
     • Address the issue
   • Stopping bullying, being sarcastic, agressive...
     • Team members must join in and take responsibility for their roles in causing team toxicity
   • Work on communication, conflict, and problem-solving skills.
   • Create a shared vision and shared goals, clarificate
   • Set ground rules for how members of the team will behave, make decisions, share information
   • Remain open to new ideas, accept input from others, explore options, and work toward win-win solutions
   • Team coaching
     • Good communicaton
     • Results improvement
   • Keep trying

2. CAUSES

   • Members bully one another to get their way
     • Rumors
     • Accusations
     • Yelling
     • Interrupting
     • Undervaluing
     • Humiliating
     • Sabotaging
     • Criticism
   • Agresivity
   • Disrespect
   • Victimism
   • Disregard
   • Bad communication
   • Focus on the past
   • Defensiveness
   • Contempt

3. IMPACT

   • Stress
   • Low job satisfaction
   • Poor productivity
   • Anger
   • Despair
   • Physical ailments (E.g: insomnia)
   • Low results
   • Reduce the good work climate