Project HEADWAY: Managing Healthy Teams in Toxic Environments

  Organizational Culture   Strategy   Teams  

Toxic environments happen. While no one necessarily chooses to work in a toxic environment, they happen and are a reality that must be confronted.

We all encounter difficult situations and challenging contexts. The problem that toxic environments present is that those difficulties are sustained. They are embedded in the culture, and you are confronted with them day after day, month after month and year after year.

For many, toxic environments are something that they learn to survive. Strategies emerge to manage risk, stay safe and endure. Individual approaches vary, and individual motives for doing so also exist on a spectrum. Success requires building strategies to manage within the environment, or at the very least how to cope.

This webinar asks a slightly different question: even in an toxic environment, is it possible for teams to thrive? Can healthy team functioning be created and sustained in environments that are broadly unhealthy and dysfunctional? What are the strategies to build such a team, and how do you enable them to be successful? What can a manager do within the environment to make positive outcomes possible and deliver meaningful results, even in the face of a culture that seems to resist those results?

This webinar builds on our two previous explorations of Managing in Toxic environments (which you can find here and here) to explore an important and difficult question that many are forced to face: what can happen if you stay?

If you find yourself in a toxic—or at least dysfunctional—culture, and you are seeking approaches to succeed where you are, this is a webinar that you won’t want to miss.

This webinar asks a slightly different question: even in an toxic environment, is it possible for teams to thrive? Can healthy team functioning be created and sustained in environments that are broadly unhealthy and dysfunctional? What are the strategies to build such a team, and how do you enable them to be successful? What can a manager do within the environment to make positive outcomes possible and deliver meaningful results, even in the face of a culture that seems to resist those results? This webinar builds on our two previous explorations of Managing in Toxic environments to explore an important and difficult question that many are forced to face: what can happen if you stay? If you find yourself in a toxic—or at least dysfunctional—culture, and you are seeking approaches to succeed where you are, this is a webinar that you won’t want to miss.