A few weeks ago I told you about The Top 5 Traits of Toxic Teams and since then I’ve had quite a few people email me about the Get Out of Jail Strategies that I promised so here they are. And watch out for my offer of more info on Toxic Trait no 2 – Snakes in Suits.
At one time or another we’ve all worked in one; a Toxic Team! You know what I’m talking about don’t you? One of those teams where the week feels like this:
MOANday,
TEARSday,
WASTEday,
THIRSTday,
FIGHTday.
Seriously though, there are some common traits that are alive and well to some degree in all Toxic Teams and the reason I’m giving them to you is because sometimes you’re in a Toxic Team and you don’t even know it! As human beings we are very good at adapting to our environment so what this means is, we can sometimes not only endure highly stressful or demoralising situations BUT actually trick ourselves into thinking what’s happening is ‘okay’ or ‘normal’.
So here are The Top 5 traits of Toxic Teams you need to know about:
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