LibraryScenariosHow to handle team building that divides your team
Scenario

How to handle team building that divides your team

We hired a consultant to help our team work better together and they keep pushing us to 'be more vulnerable' and share personal stuff but half the team thinks this is invasive and the other half thinks the resistant people just don't want to change and now the team building is making everything worse.

Juana
Online
The coach is replying

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Imposed intimacy creates the opposite of trust when people have different boundaries around workplace relationships and different beliefs about what professional growth requires.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Femininity — constructed and contested?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.