Flying Together
Commitment, in this context, is making the team and its goals more important than the inevitable tensions and differences that arise when people work together. Diversity is one any group’s greatest strengths, but it can also be the source of its greatest challenges.
Diversity may be of style, skills sets, character, culture, in fact, you name it and it can eventually arise as a source of conflict. It is a predictable stage of relationship that what started out as a positive turns into a negative – when the honeymoon is over the real work begins.
There are other predictable dynamics that arise in groups working together, pairing (special relationships within the group), scape-goating (finding someone to blame when things go wrong), competition – often seen as a positive but when one person celebrates another’s denouement, that’s destructive and regrettably common.
There is also a predictable series of stages any group goes through (or gets stuck in) in its development.
The presentations vary but the content is largely the same and so, with understanding and awareness you can deal with these challenges easily using them as a springboard to the next stage of development of the team. To find out more, contact me or follow the links to review your coaching options and/or some of the principles behind my coaching.
“When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.”
African Proverb
