Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Digesting the black apple

Office and TeamWork.
Picture this situation:

You are member of a sports team or a workplace team. Your group has 5 members counting you, and 4 of them seem to have a good understanding of what a team work means. However, the fifth one does not really follows the flow of everybody working together. He oftens complaints about every decision the team presents and is just full of negative energy.
 
What would you do? .. How would you adress this problem?
 
take a few minutes to come up with a solution
 
1...2...3...4 ready??
 
Well..first! you have to identify that person as a "work rebel". This is a person that refuses to follow instructions and tries to go against the system in a negative way.
 
The reason im talking about this its because I have experienced many situations participating for a group or sport team where there is always someone that brings the black cloud to the good weather. My parents called these people: "The black apples".
 
Some of the ways that had worked for me at the time of dealing with this problem are:

Eat the black apple right way: I have talked to that person and we found a way to get to a middle point where he can feel free to express himself but without harming others
 
Make an apple pie: making sure that the rest of the team feels the same way and figure out a solution that makes everybody happy.
 
Check out this article...i think it supports my idea very well :)

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