How Is Internal Friction Affecting Your Group?

Where have your differences with your workmates taken you? Did it take you as far as the Human Resource Administrator’s office because of your constant and unhealthy bickering? Or did the issue remain in your department where people constantly exchanged awkward glances because of the palpable tension between you and the other employee?

What causes the arguments? Are they the differences in ideas? Or is it something more personal like religious beliefs or a lack thereof? Having differences in an office is completely normal. It comes with diversity. On one side it serves as an effective proof that you’re firm in standing for what you believe in. But on the flip side, it can also mean that there are issues that need to be solved. It may signal that your team’s diversity isn’t used very well and in a way that it actually becomes your team’s strongest tool. 

It is during such time that the team should join an integrated coaching program. Professional development coaching, for example, can specifically help them gain new perspective about their work. Subsequently, enabling employees to gain new perspective can help them grow as persons and as professionals. 

Professional development coaching can help people with different beliefs find a common ground. It can help them express their beliefs freely and without judgment and then eventually find a common goal with their colleagues which will serve as their guiding points to work better. After all, in every workplace, the key to collective effectiveness is to collaborate and grow, not convert and divide.