Top 10 Reasons for Conflict on Your Teams!

Difficult situations appear everyday in the workplace…and when they do, they usually lead to conflict.  Over the years, I’ve polled seminar audiences, newsletter subscribers and others to find out the common causes of conflict on their teams. Though there are quite a few more, here are 10 reasons…see if you can identify with any:

1. Lack of Cooperation/Teamwork

2. Lack of Adequate Communication

3. Unfair Treatment

4. Seeing others not pulling their weight

5. Managers changing their minds about what they want done

6. Lack of support from managers/colleagues

7. Pressure from managers

8. Feeling exploited or used by managers

9. Interuptions by colleagues and managers

10. Bullying behavior by managers and colleagues

Does this list match yours? If not, what are some of the reasons your team conflicts? What kind of team building efforts do you use to minimize conflict in your organizations? Let us know!

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