Ep #36 Why Your Team Needs A Detox
Leadership Beyond the Title · 2025-08-20 · 31 min
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Summary In this episode of Leadership Beyond the Title, TaSheena Braxton explores the concept of team detox, emphasizing the importance of clearing old habits and unspoken rules that hinder team performance. She discusses how misalignment and unclear goals contribute to project failures and disengagement, and offers practical strategies for fostering alignment, establishing clear outcomes, and implementing regular retrospectives to enhance team dynamics and productivity. Gems Most teams fail due to unresolved buildup. Teams need regular detoxes to clear old habits. Misalignment accounts for 70% of project failures. Disengaged employees cost organizations significantly. Team culture is shaped by inherited old ways of working. New team members often struggle with alignment. Effective teams require explicit norms for decision-making. Retrospectives are crucial for learning and improvement. Toxins in teams must be intentionally cleared out. Leadership should focus on changing mindsets, not removing people.