Building trust within a team

Hi there, 

One of our teams is really struggling with team cohesion at the top. There's a real lack of trust and jostling for power/authority - none of which is very constructive at all. This hasn't been helped by the respective C-Suite leader shying away from more difficult conversations and not providing any clarity on roles and expectations - he always hopes that everything will just turn out for the best! I think it would help enormously if he could role model appropriate behaviours more but we are where we are. 

We've now got to the stage where we're running some sessions on trying to provide this clarity and digging into better ways of understanding each other and establishing our ways of working. 

I have some tools up my sleeve that I am planning on using but I feel this might need ongoing work and I was wondering if anyone had any particular tools/models/resources that they've used in the past for team building where communication and trust is deteriorating and you need to pull people back together. 

Thanks!

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  • Hi Alys

    I’d suggest some form of exec coaching for the c leader. I’ve provided similar for middle leaders and whilst I have ‘authority’ I need them to own their problems - even if they don’t realise it is their problem.
    It’s almost like a failure of duty of care by the c leader and i’d focus on bringing them to realise it. The consequences could be significant if ignored.

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  • Hi Alys

    I’d suggest some form of exec coaching for the c leader. I’ve provided similar for middle leaders and whilst I have ‘authority’ I need them to own their problems - even if they don’t realise it is their problem.
    It’s almost like a failure of duty of care by the c leader and i’d focus on bringing them to realise it. The consequences could be significant if ignored.

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