Coaching for Team Camaraderie

What is camaraderie? 

Mutual trust and friendship among individuals who spend an abundance of time together.

Imagine an office where we walk into a department each day where we either don’t really know anyone or don’t like the people you do know. How it would be? How easy it will be work in such an environment? Now, if you have to build a rocket at that office, how smooth that will be!

When individuals perceive valued, they work together more energetically.

Now you imagine your supervisors, crushes all the silos and encourage extensively information collaboration among each other and establish that all the team members are getting along with each other casually. How it will be?

Why people leave the organization?

Research from the Gallup organization reveals that one of the 12 factors that illuminate whether an employee is happy on their job is having a best friend at work. Relationships with coworkers retain employees. 

According to many sources, a bad boss is also the number one reason why employees quit their job. 

The overall culture of your company makes a distinction for employees. Employees appreciate a workplace in which communication is transparent, management is accessible, executives are approachable and respected, and direction is clear and understood. Overall culture keeps employees—or turns them away.

All those teams I was on that were successful were the ones that everyone had a love for each other and had fun. Things that seem minuscule - joking around, laughing, conversing, all those things that seem childish - that is what builds camaraderie. Karl-Anthony Towns

Challenges to building camaraderie?

• Employees feel that their work is not meaningful to the company
• Employees feel they are not contributing to the business’s mission and goals.
• Poor teamwork is just one part of building unhappiness at work
• Employees missing a deep sense of affiliation with their team members
• Employees Missing Friendships at work, which lead to poor personal and professional support groups
• Employees are not interested to know each other strength and weakness
• Employees are uncomfortable, fearful, negative ambient
• High conflict and no one resolves those conflicts 
• Hero culture 
• Works are at an individual level and not commons shared goal
• Distributed team and minimal interaction among team members
• The significant cultural barrier exists within the team
• Manager fails to listen to the collective voice of the team

Gallup research has revealed that employees whose managers hold regular meetings with them are almost three times as likely to be engaged than employees with managers who ignore them.

Coaching for enhancing team camaraderie:

• Look for all these occurrences, work with the supervisor to establish all these below points happen at team
• Schedule an event where bonding can happen
• Compelling individuals to engage in in compulsory team-building activities
• allow chat informally with their co-workers.
• Understand that chitchat during the day isn’t all bad
• Build trust with numerous means and mechanism
• Particular attention on team communication 
• Diversity and inclusion is the key 
• Respect individual opinion
• No criticism at any cost, solely constructive feedback
• Recognize team members regularly 
• Celebrate success
• Hire by the team members, Evaluate by all the team members so that they can embrace their new family members

When we do team coach all these factors helps us to build high performance teams. We courageously call out if we find missing such instances.