No matter what type of industry you are in, it is always best to form some sort of cohesive team between your employees, as each seeks to fulfill his duties in the line of work. This teamwork is crucial in being productive even in the smallest of areas. Everyone has to work together to make things produce well and quickly, but in order for that to happen, individual employees have to trust each other. When this trust is not there, then they tend to squabble among each other, foster office politics, and compete against each other.
In families, each person has a role which no other person in the family can quite fulfill. They are wanted and actually needed for their unique attributes, rather than just their conformity to the whole. However, if everyone’s unique attributes are being effective utilized, it becomes necessary for them to successfully work together in order to form a more perfect whole. The same situation applies in business.
Sometimes, it is not the role or the title of the employee which defines their function within the organization. It is how they perform their function which defines it. When employees are attempting to trust each other and work together, they need to see each other’s vulnerabilities in order to reveal their own. Unfortunately, when employees abuse drugs or alcohol, they cover up their vulnerabilities and distance themselves from others, which makes it very hard for others to trust them. Since trust is such a cohesive component of building a team, it is necessary to eliminate abusive employees by identifying them with drug and alcohol testing and potentially letting them go. Individuals who have been exposed to alcohol or alcoholics for long periods of time find it very difficult to trust even their closest family and friends, so it is especially important to include them in your team building as much as possible and eliminate the possibility of them being exposed to that again.
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