Just because everyone on the team gets along doesn’t mean the team is strong.
Agreement or accord—traits of deep alignment—can be manufactured, and thus fake. If unaddressed, the team is destined to disappoint and underperform.
Here are 3 tell-tale clues your team is operating with artificial harmony:
1) There’s little or no peer-to-peer feedback. Critical insights and the comments necessary to adapt leadership only come from the boss (if at all).
2) When tension mounts in meetings and conflict nears, someone makes a joke. Everyone laughs—then backs away and delays again the critical discussion the team needs to have to succeed.
3) Colleagues nod in agreement to decisions, then leave the meeting and host conversations “offline” to determine the real plan.
Deep alignment isn’t fake. It’s the result of colleagues who care enough about the business to care about one another—in a manner that calls everyone to a higher level of consciousness and actions.
With authentic harmony, you and your colleagues can do and say what needs to be said to synchronize efforts as you execute plans.