Management

Many teams have the dysfunction of trust, where they feel uncomfortable with showing each other vulnerability. If you’re on a team with this dysfunction, you might want to know how to build trust in a team. As we learned in Dysfunction One: Absence of Trust, trust is the quality of being able to feel safe and unjudged by one’s teammates. It is the ability to be vulnerable with one another (by being willing to admit mistakes and reveal weaknesses). Trust is the foundation of team dynamics – in an absence of trust, people will feel unable to disagree in a

What is absence of trust in a team? What does trust mean, and why do people misbehave when trust is gone? Why is this dysfunction so damaging to team productivity? Learn more in this tip from Five Dysfunctions of a Team.