Leadership Friction Cascades Down AND Team Friction Bubbles Up
Last Silverinings, I talked about the exhaustion your leadership team will be feeling if they are in unproductive conflict. But the real cost to the organisation is not exclusive to the leadership team.
Unproductive or absent conflict in the leadership team means they're not equipped to help teams manage between-team friction. The result? Tricky decisions stall, workflows jam, projects derail, relationships fracture. You'll see it in under-communication, 'us and them' talk, passive-aggressive emails, avoidable mistakes, repeated inefficiencies.
Leadership friction cascades down. Between-team friction bubbles up. Often both are happening simultaneously.
The pattern is the problem, not the people.
It is the pattern that is costing you high performance outcomes, exhaustion and more importantly (in my mind) joy.
*High Performing Exec Team programs* *Bewteen Team programs*
*Workplace mediation* *Exec Coaching*