Response to Pierre’s “Strategic leadership teams – HC1”
I believe you have done an excellent job in analyzing your organization by using Strategic Team Review and Action Tool (STRAT; Hughes, Beatty, & Dinwoodie, 2014) to understand what are the reasons and policies of the organization are coming in way of growth and development. After, reading the post and going through the three answers you discussed in your post. It concludes to me that there was an actual lack of leadership. In my belief, there are some possible solutions like teamwork and sharing ideas. Building trust in every individual working as a part of the organization and never take advantage of the post a person is working with. According to Huges et al (2014) “Organizational structure is typically depicted as a chart that clarifies formal authority relationships and patterns of communication within an organization. Most people take structure for granted and fail to realize that it’s just a tool for getting things done. The structure is not an end in itself, and different structures might exist for organizations performing similar work, each structure having distinctive advantages and disadvantages”(p.194). Also, it has been shared by Senge, P. (2006) “when we confuse our position in an organization with our personal identity, every failure, criticism, success, and victory is a direct reflection of our worth. We are more than our position. Getting sucked into that thinking only leaves us feeling unfulfilled and at times hamstrung by the challenges we face, where we could be an integral part of the solution versus mired in guilt and shame over organizational performance” (p.18).
In my, belief another idea of working on conflicts in any organization is taking anonymous reviews from everyone and for everyone without letting anyone who is commenting on whom. As in our organization, we have a fixed day of every month when every employee is asked to write about how another employee is working and what needs to be changed for the betterment of the organization. This helps an employee to self-analyze his/her abilities and generates a scope of self-development. By this idea, everyone is allowed to share their reviews for other person and also makes a way for the betterment of the organization.
References:
Hughes, R., Beatty, K. & Dinwoodie, D. (2014). Becoming a strategic leader: your role in your organization’s enduring success. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass
Senge, P. (2006). The fifth discipline. New York: Doubleday