How do you deal with team members who disrupt the team dynamic?
Our reader poll today asks: How do you deal with team members who disrupt the team dynamic?
– Coach them and better integrate them into the team: 65%
– Remove them from the team for the greater good: 18%
– Accept it and work around them: 17%
Disruptive team members can be more destructive than your competitors. Simply accepting the negative impact they cause isn’t acceptable as a leader. Those of you making the hard choice to coach and integrate those folks into the team should be applauded. And for those of you taking the most difficult step of removing a problem team member once coaching stops working are performing admirable work. It’s unfair to let others suffer because of a disruptive team member who doesn’t respond to coaching.
Do you agree with these poll results? Let us know in the comments below!
– Mike Figliuolo at thoughtLEADERS, LLC
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These results were originally a SmartPulse poll in SmartBrief on Leadership which tracks feedback from more than 190,000 business leaders. Get smarter on leadership and sign up for the SmartBrief on Leadership e-newsletter.
I like this article. I would just make certain that the team defines “disruptive” correctly. I have been on teams where anyone who offers an idea that the rest of the team hadn’t considered before is branded as disruptive and a problem to be dealt with, not a valuable contributor to the team effort. Those teams usually make very poor decisions.