- Awareness:
Senior leadership team lacks alignment, they operate in silos and don’t collaborate effectively, there’s tension and mistrust between them that radiates throughout the organization. - Communication:
Leadership doesn’t effectively communicate information, priorities, expectations and changes with the rest of the organization in a timely manner, or at all. - Development:
Lack of a clear career path for upward opportunities or professional growth for leaders and employees. No succession plan in place or onboarding plan for new hires. - Interpersonal:
Culture is missing a system, process, or support for resolving conflicts and disagreements between leaders and teams. - Influence:
Departments, divisions, business units, offices, or teams work in silos by function and don’t really know what other areas of the organization are doing or how to leverage them. - Culture:
Employee engagement and morale are low. Environment of constant change, uncertainty, ambiguity, complexity, and volatility. Motivation and engagement are missing. - Trust:
Different levels of leadership don’t trust other levels. Different divisions or departments don’t trust other divisions or departments. It’s hard to navigate the politics. - Integrity:
Leadership behaviors are not aligned with stated leadership values or intended corporate culture. - Safe environment:
Middle and lower level leaders, employees and staff are not empowered or don’t have a way to safely provide feedback to senior leadership, or leadership is not open to hearing new ideas and approaches. - Accountability:
Lack of accountability systems and structures across the organization. Nobody seems to be holding “them” accountable. (Every level of the organization says this about other levels).