From group to team

Opting for self-organising teams in your organisation means that you call on completely different skills of employees and managers than within a traditional hierarchical organisation.

Sometimes the implementation of self-organising teams does not work out the way you would like it to.
The theory is simple, but in practice you encounter resistance within the team. 

If the company culture or the professionals are not ready, you will hear the following:

• We don't feel safe to talk freely, let alone give feedback to each other
• We're not used to working together, it takes way too much time, I do my tasks faster on my own
• What if others don't do their job, then the entire project goes wrong?
• I am unable to work with younger/older co-workers, with other characters, with someone from another department,...
• If we divide roles, one will do more than the other and I'll get extra work on my back
• What if there's no longer a manager, who should we listen to?
• What happens to my bonus if there are no more individual targets?
• ...