Focusing on aligning expectations and priorities can prevent disappointments and improve team dynamics.
Resolving conflict debt promptly prevents emotional build-up and enhances team productivity.
Deep dives
The Importance of Alignment in Teams
Teams often mistake alignment issues for trust issues. Focusing on aligning expectations and priorities can prevent disappointments and improve team dynamics. Lack of alignment leads to conflict debt, where necessary conversations are avoided, creating consequences.
Understanding Conflict Debt
Conflict debt arises from avoiding uncomfortable but necessary conversations within teams. Examples include not addressing business decisions, unresolved interpersonal issues, and failing to advocate for oneself. Resolving conflict debt promptly prevents emotional build-up and enhances team productivity.
Building Trust Through Vulnerability and Accountability
Trust comprises layers like predictability, credibility, reliability, and integrity. Being vulnerable and accountable fosters trust within teams. Transparency, open communication, and acknowledging challenges can enhance trust levels and team dynamics.
Navigating the Return to Office Debate
Discussions on returning to the office often revolve around control rather than productivity. Employees value the control gained from remote work for personal and productivity reasons. Managers need to redefine expectations about team contributions, focus on fairness in decision-making processes, and emphasize community values over control.
Team misalignment can often disguise itself as trust and dynamic issues. So how can managers and leaders ensure their teams are aligned and trust one another?
In episode #146, Liane explains the conflict debt that occurs when we avoid necessary, uncomfortable conversations. Liane Davey is the author of the book “The Good Fight” and is known as the “teamwork doctor” and has over 25 years of experience working with hundreds of team to help them achieve high performance.
Liane shares how she approaches dysfunctional teams, why trust is a four-layer cake, and why there is no such thing as being fair as a manager.
Tune in to hear all about Liane’s leadership journey and the lessons learned along the way!
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