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I think you need to talk to each of them directly about how their behavior/attitudes are affecting the team culture. You might try to institute a new policy about when and where people can express their frustrations/concerns. Derailing team-wide meetings with negativity can be poisonous for everyone
I agree that you should talk to these people individually about their behavior and try to figure out what the source of it may be Although I think that before you do that you should consider gathering some documentation of their little comments so that you can bring it up to them and explain how it derails the meetings and affects team morale.
Agree with above. Also try to catch them doing something right and praise that. No negativity in a meeting? Praise that
Oh gosh that must be annoying. Is it a lot of other people in the meeting or just you and a few more? I'd maybe try to get help from someone else in steering the convo towards more productive topics and see if you can get them to take a hint on it.
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Just a few more but it really dampers the mood and they don't let anyone else get a word in…. Particularly one of them
Rising Star
Have you tried putting up an area for like parking lots and basically saying that these are things you will talk about later?
Rising Star
what you do is you put a list of things you typically do it on a whiteboard in a meeting, but it is a list called parking lot and then when things start to go off the rails you just say OK I will add that to the parking lot to discuss later.
If this has been going on for sometime, then you may need to do a couple of things to correct it. Look at the challenge from all angles. Do they do this in ALL meetings they attend or only this one? Are they the same way in 1:1 meetings? What is their relationship with the manager/boss? Good or bad? The more information you can gather allows you to help treat the root cause not the symptom you are seeing (meeting disruption). Definitely speak 1:1 with the ee's causing friction as well to find out what could be going on in their lives to make them difficult in a team environment. A thing you could do to adjust the team culture is: 1. Create a better meeting agenda format that reinforces inclusivity and time management and clearly spells out exceptable dos and donts, such as refrain from interrupting your peers, set time limits on each update section and use the parking lot concept when the conversation goes off the rails, leave time for next steps and assigned actions.