I have had conflict with one of my Team Leaders for a year now. I have been working with HR to deal with the insubordination, innuendos, and undermining for over a year now from her. She has rallied the staff and surgeons to take sides against me this past week. Then HR received a corporate compliance report about the above mentioned Team Leader and had a meeting with her, giving her detailed expectations she had to follow. Now she has turned in her resignation. My question is what do I announce to the Doctors and staff about her leaving? How do I present it?

The Team Doc Says…

This kind of team member – especially in a Team Leader role – is toxic to your team. Congratulations for hanging in there and successfully getting rid of her. Your team will experience some “shock” time, but it will be better for it.

No one needs to know the details of her resignation except you. All you need to tell the team is that she has resigned effective (date). And you need to move forward and begin repairing the damage done to your team. Don’t look back.

It would be a good idea to get everyone together and reconfirm roles and responsibilities, and your team mission and goals. Also take some time to strengthen the team communication channels by talking through what’s working and what’s not. Good luck and let me know how this works out for you.

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