If you are feeling repulsive every day to get back to work and to avoid the toxic work culture, you are not alone. Hostile work environment and workplace harassment exists even in Fortune 500 companies. Scrum teams and agile methodologies are a perfect solution to wipe out instability and insecurity in the teams.

Toxic Work Culture

Toxic work culture is common in organizations and definitely in all insecure teams. It is as evident as bullying in schools and ragging in colleges. You can only suck it up so much! Using your peers against you has become a norm for Human Resources and Project Managers. The insecurity and instability have led to more repulsive and reclusive teams.

You can differentiate toxic work culture in the first week itself. Everything is so rosy until you join and while you are getting acquainted with the new environment, the onset of personal attacks will begin. By the way, this has nothing to do with how well you are educated, how hard you are working, or how much you are willing to change to match the company’s expectations. It is just like that.

Scrum Teams

On the other hand, Scrum teams are proving to more empowering teams by self-organizing and cross-functional methods. All teams are agile and are welcoming input for continuous improvement. We all learn from each other and that is true for organizations as well. New hires who are Scrum certified are now becoming mandatory for teams. Even your organization is not following agile scrum, getting certified will provide new ways of working and enabling each other.

Modern organizations like NewBoCo #newboco are training the youth in both software as well as agile scrum certifications and placing them in client place. Getting certified is the best way to understand why the clients are preferring Agile Scrum trained professionals. While some may think the Scrum certifications are unnecessary and only technical certifications are needed. But, how the technical certifications are helpful if your thought process is small and basic work habits are toxic. I think more than the technical certifications, Scrum certifications will help to improve the teams. Technical skills can be learned in a short time but the time taken to modify an entire organization mindset is more. Certified Scrum Master and Certified Scrum Product Owner are the two certifications, to begin with. Even if your organization is not developing software, your teams can get benefitted by Scrum knowledge. This will help in the optimization of resources and time.

Scrum teams help each other and become high performing teams. They are continuously helping each other in technical and/or any personal issues. If one team member is having a problem, others are willing to pitch in instead of putting them further down. Helping will multiply further and foster a healthy workplace. All staffing companies must ask their consultants to get Scrum certified if the Client company is having Agile Scrum in their policy. This will help in a smooth transition and avoid unnecessary situations.