Employees help the team and organization through “voice”—the expression of ideas about work. Your group may have one or more members who are not interested/engaged in the meeting discussion. The bored person may be preoccupied with other issues and not pay attention or participate in the group meeting. Attention spans are dwindling, so if you don’t involve members every few minutes, they will tune you out.

To succeed, it is important that all members contribute to the team’s task without social loafers that are also called free loaders. Whenever you work in a group, do not embarrass, intimidate, or argue with any members, no matter how much they provoke you. Don’t belittle others in meetings, and don’t let members belittle others. If problem members do not respond to the preceding techniques, confront them.