Team-building: Agree to Disagree

FACT: Teams are hard to manage.
FACT: Disagreement within teams is inevitable.

When people with distinct styles and ideas come together to tackle complex challenges, opposition is bound to surface.

Sometimes conversations about differences become defensive. Differences that breed a climate of distrust can lead to cohesion and performance spiraling downward very fast.

While disagreement is unavoidable, stagnation is not! What do you do next?
Would you believe that high performing teams actually thrive on difference? It’s true. A team with multiple voices and diversity of style and talent can move us toward a team-approved solution much quicker.

How does a team move from discord to some sense of harmony? This transformation emerges from a fundamental shift in focus: from deficits to strengths, problems to possibilities, criticism to appreciation. The guiding question moves from "What's wrong, how do we fix it"? to "What's great, how do we do it even more"?

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