Exploration map · The story the team carries with it

Drained Team

When having coped with everything doesn’t mean you still want to

Signs to watch for

  • The team keeps working, but its energy is steadily lower.
  • Few people carry a great deal of complexity.
  • Experience and skill are now taken for granted.
  • More than opposition to change, what emerges is detachment.

Here the framework identifies quiet disengagement as the main risk, among the very people who have carried a great many transformations.

The biggest challenge to face

Finding meaning and a direction that make it worth investing energy in change again.

Possible paths

History does not determine the future, but it can influence the way a team faces a new challenge. Try to notice these possible developments along the path ‘Explore how the team reads the present’.

Breathless Team: torn muscle →

If accumulated tiredness prevails, a new challenge may bring out the feeling of no longer having enough resources to face it.

Team on the Front Line →

If the need to keep proving competence and reliability prevails, the team may take on AI with great commitment and get good results. At the same time, it becomes harder to show doubts or fragility, and the question of its own future value takes up more space.

Where to focus right away

Recognise the value explicitly. Make what the team has carried visible and recognised.

Make the new direction visible. Help people understand where the organisation is going and what place they can have in the future.

Keep paying attention over time. Quiet disengagement is unlikely to be solved by a single action or a single act of recognition.

A question to bring to the team

What would the next change need to include for it still to be worth investing energy in?

Back to the reflection

This is not a diagnosis. It is one possible lens through which to look at your team. A team may recognise itself in more than one profile.

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