culturedrivers.com - Consulting and Saas

not only do challenged teams limit effectiveness and drag down individual engagement, they are quite costly too. a recent estimate states that challenged teams may eat up 34% of the payroll while a study reveals how managers easily spend 25-40% of their time dealing with conflicts in the workplace. so why do some teams excel while others sink into conflict and inefficiency? we have analyzed thousands of members in hundreds of teams across industries, geographies and company sizes, and the result was surprising. even when leaders and teams already have the knowledge needed to excel, they still end up behaving less than optimally. in other words: team performance is not necessarily a learning challenge - it is a culture challenge. global researcher and author marcus buckingham has documented that “there is greater variation in engagement and performance between teams within a company than between companies”. our data confirms this to a greater degree than we anticipated. moreover