What is one of the most serious challenges in teams? Surface-level connections instead of deep, trusted relationships. Reason? Employees become jaded after daily communication fluff like soulless small talk and fake pleasantries. All this is not harmful in and of itself, because small talk initially makes you feel welcome. But when this becomes a routine without deep meaningful bonding, your team just gets weaker.
Embrace being real, with yourself and with others, only then you can build long-term trust and genuine ties. Go beyond asking each other your weekend plans, invest time in getting to know your team members, their work styles, personalities, problem solving approaches – Lesser optics. More realness.
