Dysfunctional Leadership Team: Your Leadership Team Is Dysfunctional. That Is Fixable.
Most leadership team dysfunction is not a talent problem. It is a structural and behavioral problem. The same people who are dysfunctional in the wrong environment become highly effective in the right one. Teams.Coach diagnoses the root cause of your leadership team dysfunction and builds the structural foundation for a high-performing team in 90 days.
Eight Signs Your Leadership Team Is Dysfunctional
- The same conflict resurfaces every quarter with different names
- Leaders agree in meetings and execute in different directions outside them
- High performers are leaving and no one can explain exactly why
- Decisions require CEO involvement to resolve
- Departments operate as separate companies with competing priorities
- Meetings produce agreement but not action
- Trust is low but no one will say it out loud
- The leadership team performs differently when the CEO is not in the room
Five Types of Leadership Team Dysfunction
- Absence of trust: The foundation of every functional team is psychological safety.
- Fear of conflict: Dysfunctional teams avoid productive conflict and mistake artificial harmony for alignment.
- Lack of commitment: When teams avoid conflict, they cannot commit.
- Avoidance of accountability: Without commitment, accountability collapses.
- Inattention to results: Individual and departmental interests replace collective results.