Fundamentals We Help You To Fix
40 Common Problems We Have Identified That Cause Bad Business
How Many Are You Experiencing?
- Being busy is a badge of honour
- Bad strategy
- Even worse…No strategy
- Not every member of your company can recite the company strategy
- Each team having an independent strategy and does not join up
- Bad leadership
- Back to back meetings as the norm
- No trust
- Perks are seen and confused with Company culture
- Management and HR teams not connected with their people
- Forced & unproductive one to ones
- When one person’s views or time outweighs the many
- Problem solving and ideation always end with the same “ideas”
- Getting the project out vs being proud of good work
- One decision-maker
- Constant fear to make a decision
- Constant asking for permission (to make a decision, to organise a meeting etc)
- Employees knowing something is wrong without being able to articulate it
- Reactive over proactive – Reactive to what others are doing vs proactive in delivery
- Bombarded with notifications
- Over-communication
- Obsessed by what competitors are doing, without any focus on your own delivery
- When things never change (internally)
- Brand police over brand coaching
- No employee development
- No onboarding to management teams
- Everything is urgent
- No coaching or mentoring
- Away days are an escape from work
- Micromanagement and micro aggressions
- Lack of shared and centralised knowledge
- Non connected goals – Non-joint up OKRs (driven by silos)
- Culture of living out of your inbox
- Death by PowerPoint edits (or by Excel updates)
- The company built on unknown knowns – (never sharing knowledge or just one person seems to know what is going on)
- Me Over We – That one person holding all the “knowledge”
- That’s not my job answers
- Thank you has turned into an emoji or gif reaction, not an in-person thank you
- Company-wide thank you and celebratory email chains
- Working late and sending late emails is celebrated