URMC / Employee Assistance Program / News & Events / UR Medicine EAP Blog / January 2017 / Is Your Team in Trouble? Is Your Team in Trouble? Work teams can be powerful tools for productivity, but they lose impact when dysfunction affects six critical areas. Diagnose your team’s health by examining how well your team performs on each of the following: 1) Trust and ability to be vulnerable with one another; 2) Ability to share and offer ideas freely, without inhibitions, and with acceptance; 3) Forming a consensus, identifying a project, and pursuing it to completion, with each member feeling important to its successful outcome; 4) Silence is shunned and speaking up is a group tradition when a member is performing under par; 5) Achievements are shared. See any issues above that concern you? 1/3/2017 You may also like Have a Team Refresher Meeting Fried Food and Focus Don’t Mix You’re Committed, So Show It Avoid After-Hours Job Creep