5 Warning Signs Your Team Is Disengaged (And What To Do About It)

Is your team showing signs of burnout, frustration, or disconnection? Employee disengagement isn't always obvious at first, but the consequences from plummeting productivity to costly turnover, can be devastating.

Here are five red flags that signal disengagement, along with actionable steps to reignite your team's motivation and rebuild resilience.

1. Reduced Productivity

When high-performing employees start missing deadlines or delivering lower-quality work, it's often a sign of mental and emotional exhaustion.

✅ What to Do: Conduct open conversations to uncover the root cause. Provide clarity on expectations, adjust workloads if necessary, and create opportunities for professional growth.

2. High Turnover

If your team is losing key talent or experiencing a revolving door of employees, it's time to investigate why. Burnout, lack of recognition, and unresolved conflict often drive people away.

✅ What to Do: Perform stay interviews to understand what's working and what isn't. Prioritize psychological safety and foster a culture of feedback and continuous improvement.

3. Low Participation in Meetings

Silent, uninvolved employees in meetings aren't just introverted, they may be disconnected and disengaged.

✅ What to Do: Encourage inclusive conversations by actively seeking input. Provide clear agendas, assign roles, and ensure meetings are collaborative rather than performative.

4. Increased Conflicts

A spike in workplace conflict often points to misaligned expectations, poor communication, or unresolved tensions.

✅ What to Do: Invest in conflict resolution training and provide leaders with the tools to facilitate constructive conversations. Create opportunities to repair relationships and rebuild trust.

5. Resistance to Feedback

When employees become defensive or apathetic in response to feedback, it's a sign they may not feel valued, supported, or psychologically safe.

✅ What to Do: Foster a feedback-friendly environment by leading with empathy. Ensure feedback is specific, actionable, and focused on growth. Celebrate progress, not just results.

It's Time to Take Action

Recognizing these signs is the first step. The next step is to implement proven strategies to rebuild engagement, trust, and resilience.

🎯 Join our free webinar: "10 Strategies to Reignite and Stabilize Your Team Amidst 2025's Market Turbulence"

🗓️ Monday, 14th April 2025

You'll learn actionable solutions to help your team overcome disengagement, navigate uncertainty, and thrive in today's challenging business environment.

Don't wait until disengagement costs you your best people. Take action today.

To Your Wellness,
Joyce

About the author

Joyce Odidison is a Conflict Manager, Leadership Coach, Team Resilience Trainer, Author, and Workplace Well-Being Expert with over 27 years of experience in holistic workplace recovery and resilience. She is creator of the 90-Day Team Resilience Accelerator, a science-backed framework designed to help high-stress leaders, HR, and managers reduce the high cost of toxic team dynamics and underperformance. Grounded in Interpersonal Neurobiology (INB) and Positive Psychology, Joyce’s approach has been proven to reduce burnout, turnover, and stress leave, equipping leaders with a clear high value intervention-to-revitalization framework to build high-trust, resilient, and high-performing teams. Joyce's holistic nine-dimensional process equips leaders and their teams, accelerating the team’s success.

✅Trained 10,000+ Leaders
✅Expert in Leadership, Conflict Management, Team and Workplace Resilience & Well-Being.
✅ Founder, Wellness Competency Resilience Academy
✅ Best Selling Author of 7 books
✅ 27+ years of experience helping organizations eliminate workplace toxicity. Joyce Odidison has developed transformative solutions that empower leaders, HR, and teams to create resilient, productive, and thriving workplaces.

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