Discomfort with conflict runs higher in bureaucracies for this reason. Therefore, team leaders need to learn facilitation skills in order to make people more comfortable resolving conflicts in team settings. Respect for facts, data, and objective analysis is essential to foster teamwork. People are more willing to create interdependencies involving trust and vulnerability when they feel that facts and neutral data are valued. The complexity of administrative problem-solving cannot be discounted.
Knowledgeable employees know that there are no quick fixes.
Team efforts can be quickly undermined by simplistic finger-pointing which suggests that solutions ought to be as easy to find as the problems were to identify. Both large-scale and incremental improvements play a role in improving administrative productivity and service quality. Misunderstandings can be corrected more readily in a less layered, less hierarchical organization. In the past, specialized staff polished ideas to final presentation form before managers proposed them as policy or program initiatives. In an organization devoted to teamwork and innovation, new ideas can be presented without risk of embarrassment at an early, unpolished stage when mistakes are actually valued.