How do you deal with the Elephant in the Room? š
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.
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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. š
What are the Elephants in YOUR room that you are choosing to ignore?Ā
If you are just complaining about it in private, then you are contributing to the problem.
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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 š¢ š” / šµ š“Ā Anthony KandiĀ Simone HambrookĀ Annie SpiteriĀ Sushrut KamathĀ Devon WhiteĀ Jason WuĀ Robert Hogeland
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