How to End a Team

Our high performance team is breaking up due to a restructure. Everyone adores each other. I am bringing everyone together for an evening of closure. Is there some sort of activity that you can recommend that would facilitate that?

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Toxic Team Member Disrupting Our Team

I’m part of a small team of 6 people that I’ve been a part of since it’s inception. One person on the team always has a negative attitude about the way our manager runs things and I’m afraid he’s causing a rift in our team. Occasionally he makes suggestions of how it could be better, but never acts on those suggestions. There are several underlying factors — he’s working on his MBA and feels like he should be in line for a management position, but the manager and I don’t feel like he’s proven he’s capable of doing well at it. Also, he really admired our previous manager and has never fully accepted our current manager. I get the feeling that he talks negatively to another team member and some other people outside our group about our manager. He also recently tried to use a job offer for much more money to get a raise, which failed. I feel like we facilitate a very open environment, encouraging new ideas and communication. What can we do to get him on board and take action?

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