How do you deal with the Elephant in the Room? 🐘
Elephants are those glaringly obvious issues that we typically choose to ignore because we want to avoid conflict, avoid rocking the boat, or just put in the too hard basket.
Some examples of well known elephants?
- A highly skilled employee consistently behaving inappropriately, but we learn to live with it because "they are too important for our organisation"
- A known cyber security exposure ready to explode (it brought down the Death Star!)
- A committed portfolio of work clearly beyond the capacity of the team, and unlikely to be delivered.
- A "just do it" request that is clearly less important than our current commitments
- Something bad our competitor has done that has been exposed - and we know we are doing the same thing.
- Watermelons! Those key initiatives that we pretend are going well. 🍉
What are the Elephants in YOUR room that you are choosing to ignore?
If you are just complaining about it in private, then you are contributing to the problem.
Having a strong foundation of trust within the team makes it very easy to have those difficult conversations to deal with the elephant in the room.
Robert Cass 🟢 🟡 / 🔵 🔴 Anthony Kandi Simone Hambrook Annie Spiteri Sushrut Kamath Devon White Jason Wu Robert Hogeland
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