This week I got to talk with one of my favorite people and roommate :) Hannah shared about how she finds happiness in the daily tasks and how our expectations, attitude, and social media can have strong affects on the way we find happiness. She shares some great advice on how you can adjust how you react to find more happiness, but the importance of remembering its okay to be sad sometimes. I loved talking with Hannah and I hope you can get something great out of this conversation too.
I got a new service for my podcast (which is super exciting) - so check it out there with the link below or on Spotify! Comment if you relate and if you've ever found yourself finding happiness in the daily moments too! :)
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I’m not sure why I didn’t think being a full time grad student with a full time job would be a lot to handle! I’m making it through though and am still finding time to rest and be with friends. But I did not have as much time to read as I had hoped. I still wanted to do a book blog this month, so instead I’ll bring to you a spin on a great book I read in my class and how it could help us find happiness on any team whether the team is at school, work, or anywhere for that matter.
If you haven’t read this book and you are part of a team, I strongly suggest it! The book shares about a dysfunctional team and the things that are important to well… functioning. It was a narrative though and it allows you to feel like you are in the team and I could tell one thing for sure and that is that none of them were happy. It got me thinking that maybe these dysfunctions come into play more than we think when we’re unhappy as a team with a common goal. When your team isn’t working well, it makes you less motivated and unhappy. However, rather than pushing the team we dislike aside, why not embrace it and see what we can do to fix the dysfunctions and find happiness. The first dysfunction is the absence of trust. Trust can have a lot of meanings, but in this case it means “the confidence among team members that their peers’ intentions are good and there is no reason to be protective or careful around the group.” Creating a happier team can be really hard if you don’t have trust already, but if your team isn’t able to trust each other, how will they be able to form relationships that help create happiness? Trust needs to be shared through the team. The second dysfunction is a fear of conflict. If your team is consistently agreeing on everything and there is never any conflict, it is likely at least one person isn’t happy with the decisions that are being made as a team. (I know that’s a tough one to hear). When a team engages in productive conflict, good things happen and more people are willing to speak up. Even though it brings a few moments (or more) of being uncomfortable and maybe a little unhappy, it will bring to a longer lasting happiness in the team because everyone will feel like they are being heard and more new ideas will be brought to the table! The third dysfunction is a lack of commitment. A good team makes clear and timely decisions and everyone is ready to be a part of the action. Everyone’s ideas are genuinely considered and in the end they are able to unite behind a final decision with commitment. This can bring happiness to the team because everyone is working together on a decision they all agreed to. People are able to move forward without hesitation and feel good about what they and their team are working on. The fourth dysfunction is an avoidance of accountability. This refers to “the willingness of team members to call their peers on performance or behaviors that might hurt the team.” You might be wondering how calling someone out is going to bring happiness to the team, but this one is huge for happiness. If someone isn’t doing something correctly or acting in behavior that will harm the team, it is going to make everyone else unhappy. Even though it will be uncomfortable to bring attention to someone, in the end it will bring peace to the situation and allow it to be resolved in a way that benefits everyone. It is key to have trust with the team before jumping right to this though. The fifth dysfunction is an inattention to results. This is when members care about something other than the collective goal of the group first. If a team doesn’t have the same goal, then everyone will be working towards something else and in the end, it won’t end well for every single person. A collective goal will not only drive the team forward, but will create an environment for everyone to find joy when things are accomplished and goals are achieved. It allows for happiness to be achieved sooner as a team and gives more room for the team to bond. All of these dysfunctions greatly impact how a team works and in turn impacts how happiness can be achieved at work or wherever a team is in tact. A happy team creates happy team members. It is important to remember that people need to work together to find happiness at work because of the relationships that can be formed from it. I’ll leave you at a cliff hanger with how to fix these dysfunctions though. Check out the book for yourself! It’s a quick read and a fun one too. An insight to the cliff hanger to fixing these is to focus on the reverse of the dysfunctions. For example, having more trust. These five things will help your team grow and it will help not only yourself find more happiness at work, but your team will find more happiness as well. Now that you got a peek into my MBA course, comment which function your team does well at below! Note: These quotes were taken from the book: Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni Lencioni, P. (2002). The Five Dysfunctions of a Team. Jossey-Bass. |
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