But cliques can make others feel excluded or create opposing coalitions that destroy consensus. Determine if cliques are affecting the team. If people are completing their work, you may not have to address the situation. Find out why the cliques exist. Evaluate your own behavior.
Subgroups often form because people share tasks or occupy the same office.
So take your team on a picnic, out to happy hour, or volunteer, as a group, to help a local charity. Use people from different cliques to work on projects together. Force interaction, if you have to. Sometimes, it's the only way to repair relationships.