The most cavities I’ve had at one time were about 6. The drilling for a few fillings was enough to motivate me to start caring for my teeth better! NO MORE TEETH DECAY FOR ME!
One of the cavities of “team decay” includes mistrust. Mistrust is a poison that can lead to unhealthy, rotting relationships.
Whether on a team, among family or friends at church, the workplace, or at home, the lack of trust decays quickly into a loss of trust. Broken, unhealthy communication adds to broken trust, leading to broken relationships, leading to team decay.
Some things that cultivate mistrust and team decay…
- We we feel like we aren’t being heard and we take offense. Hurt feelings lead to hurt relationships if not addressed. As you may have heard…hurt people…hurt people.
- When someone is talking behind our back and when we find out, we harbor ill feelings.
- When we gossip, and don’t have the courage to communicate and confront that person face to face.
- When our silence in a relationship or situation, leads to a silence and coldness in the relationship.
- When we undermine authority or team members by gossip, grumbling. This can happen when we are discontent with our role, lack of compensation, affirmation or encouragement, when we don’t get our way, or our idea was not heard or used, etc. Toxic attitudes and thinking can lead to toxic behavior.
- When our teams develop “cliques/camps” among themselves. Pride feeds self centeredness, internal competition, and people vying for position which adds to decaying team unity.
- When entitlement and territorial attitudes take root in our heart. We get irritable and less tolerant with those who disagree with us, or don’t acknowledge our point of view.
Below is a team leader’s response to me…after they were disciplined, removed, and later reinstated.
Sometimes the ones initiating the decay don’t realize what a hand they had in causing team decay because they are too busy pointing out everybody’s faults. They don’t truly and honestly assess themselves….so they will think team decay is everybody elses fault, and not their own.
I know as I was there big time!!!!
When we are actively building a healthy team, we will be loving, embracing, and serving each other towards our greater purpose.
We need the courage to be truthful within ourselves. We need to ask ourselves, “Am I the one causing division by grumbling and mumuring? These are things detrimental to team decay.
Thank you Pastor Rod!!!!!
– Anonymous
I leave you with Paul’s instruction, which is sound truth for us to build trust and healthy relationships.
Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor. // Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. Romans 12:9-10, 21
