Leadership Question of the week of October 05, 2009
How can a leader facilitate the process of getting people to work and collaborate better together even though they may not necessarily like each other?
Answer:
It is often difficult to avoid assigning people who dislike each other to a team that needs to work together in the achievement of a specific objective.
It is evident that people in a team who dislike each other will cause the teams to perform below the level of success of a more compatible team, let alone a dream team. The degree of inferior performance will depend essentially on two factors, namely:
1) the number of persons disliked in a team
2) the degree of existing dislike
The challenge for the leader who works with the team is to get the team to overcome disliking each other. This may be more or less difficult to achieve. It may be less difficult when the leader can substitute some persons. It will be more difficult when substitution is not possible for any reason, such as the need to keep a person on the team because he is the only expert available for the particular situation.
Whatever the particular situation, the better qualified the leader is as a facilitator the more effective is he going to be in getting a team to improve individual as well as collective performance.
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