Lack Of Trust
If the members of the team are afraid to be vulnerable with others on the team, then you will end up getting people who will not open up about their opinions on any number of subjects. The need for everyone, especially the leaders to be vulnerable and to speak up on issues that they feel are imperative to team success will end up bringing you to the next reason why your team is dysfunctional.
Scared Of Conflict
When you have a team filled with individuals that are afraid to open up you get an environment that is filled with fake harmony. People who are guarding how they feel. This may seem like a functional team from the outside, but it is filled with resentment and evident tension.
A team that is afraid to speak up is also fearful of conflict. Without conflict, you are going to have a hard time getting down to the root of every issue among the team. Teams who are not afraid to get into passionate and open conflict are the ones that can work through any problem. It is not personal. You need to be able to get into disputes with your teammates.
The leaders of a team need to have discussions among themselves from time to time. To discuss what they believe to be the right direction. If only one person is willing to speak their mind and everyone just agrees with them. Even though they may have feelings adverse to theirs. Then you are going to see what I can a dictatorship. One person guiding every decision with no one to challenge them is the recipe for both dysfunction and mistakes as well.
No Commitment
Now that you have a team that does not trust each other and is also afraid to get into a passionate debate you are going to have the perfect environment for all the team members simply not to cares about what is going on. You are going to have a lot of people who are not buying what you are selling.
A lack of commitment comes from a total lack of being heard. People want to feel like what they think is being accounted for. That their opinion matters. People who do not buy into the direction in which a team is moving are not going to care about the work they do.
The training they should be doing, the way they play on the field. You need to have the whole team bought into where the team is going, without it your team is going to be running on a treadmill… not going anywhere but backward.
Avoiding Accountability
Even leaders need to be held accountable. Everyone is capable of making mistakes, resting on their laurels. With an environment that is already lacking trust, without conflict. When no one has bought from you are going to get people who are also afraid of telling people when they are missing the mark.
If a team member is slacking on some aspect of their responsibility. You are going to be able to tell them so. You have to be able to do this without fear of being scolded for it. Mistakes happen. When no one says anything about these errors. That is merely condoning the actions. “If You See It Own It If You Walk Away You Condone It!”
Not Caring About Team Results
With all of these things going wrong. You are going to now have a team who are only focused on themselves. You will have a team caring about their stats. That is the problem with having no buy-in. When you have people, who are only concerned with how they can advance themselves they will do things that only affect their careers.
You may have goals and directions for the team, but with a team filled with no one buying into the team’s results, you will never get there. This is the team that has one or two players who have all of the stats. They are only worried about getting the ball not about winning the game.
The goals of the team should always come before the purposes of the individual. There is a clear distinction between the two. The goals of the individual are paramount. Do not get me wrong. However, they do and always should take a backseat to the overall goal os the team.
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