Fixing a Fragmented Team - Group Restorative Mediations
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'Ringleaders' drive the division. Others polarise and hide behind them. Some perpetuate the conflict through either overt or covert negativity and gossip. Others withdraw and shut down due to a sense of helplessness or overwhelm.
If you put a team together straight away in one combined process, the same dynamics continue to play out - the 'advocates' continue to speak on behalf of others and the people who never speak up, remain silent. I don't believe we can fix something until we examine honestly how and why it doesn't work and each team member is personally responsible for this - no matter how great or little their degree of participation in the overall fragmentation. Read more about team restorative processes in my blog post "When Team Building is a Waste of Time and Money"
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