Name: Work crushing your soul? Here’s what makes team culture so toxic. | Alisa Cohn
Uploaded: 2022-09-18T18:27:19.000Z
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- You can be the most empathetic person in the world,

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the most enlightened leader in the world,

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what that means is that people are working around each other

or other kinds of things that are really preventing people

and also is preventing work getting done.

So, you as a leader, wanna take a good look in the mirror

and do that radical self-examination to make sure

that you are not promoting a difficult culture

Listen, nobody sets out to create a toxic culture.

And yet, there are problems brewing inside

is nobody addresses difficult things or conflict directly.

Instead, they gossip behind people's backs.

Or, you might be the leader who really wants

but you hire employees who maybe aren't that good,

and you might not be addressing difficult issues

and it brings down the performance of everybody.

of examples of what unintended toxic cultures are.

you have to start increasing your own self-awareness

to understand what are your natural concerns

And also it's really important to look very keenly

at your culture and to make sure you have a number

People talk about culture and the way they talk about it,

I feel like it just means we like each other.

But the other elements of culture are ones you should think

to getting work done in your environment.

So you want people who are analytical and methodical,

Those are the kinds of people that you wanna then hire,

and then of course you wanna reward that kind of behavior.

Another thing you can do is be the leader

deliver difficult messages with diplomacy,

and deal with your team in a way which encourages them,

not which beats them down and slows them down.

Those kinds of elements are helpful to you

The one thing I want you to take away is:

don't just think about liking each other,

and qualities that you need to get your business done,

and that you want people to work together

and that will steer you in the right direction of culture.

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Work crushing your soul? Here’s what makes team culture so toxic. | Alisa Cohn

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