Nobody wants this:

You’ve had success in business but you can’t get your company to the next level.

• Your team isn’t aligned on vision and values, key goals and priorities..

• Your Division Heads don’t put organization before function.

• Your leaders don’t delegate, so their staff can’t learn from mistakes.

• Communication isn’t consistent across teams and functions.

• You struggle with accountability, management styles, process, decision-making, succession, or managing change in the marketplace.

No matter what your “this” is, you’re not alone. Every organization has challenges - whether your company is a start-up, family-owned, in it’s adolescence, its prime, or long-established. Organizations are people and people have problems, so organizations do, too.

As in life, what matters is what you do about it. Downplaying the impact of your problems and hoping they’ll go away is not a strategy - it’s a ticket to stagnation and the end of the line. Ignoring them and closing your eyes has a way of biting back. Problems can turn into toxic patterns - elephants in the room that employees see and feel every day.

Nothing kills an employee’s sense of purpose and possibility, connection and belonging faster than watching problems be tolerated. Patterns like that depress employee engagement and undercut mutual trust and respect - the secret sauce that gets your company to the next level.

Acknowledging your version of “this” and confronting it head-on is leadership at its best, not an admission of weakness or failure. On the contrary. Your willingness to face up to your company’s vulnerabilities and your own is how you build mutual trust and respect.

You model it.

Your company is held back when your:

1. vision, mission, and values are not mutually shared          

• perceptions and beliefs differ and create conflict within the organization

• there’s no strategic plan or it needs to be updated

• business development isn’t in sync with the industry

• leaders want to grow the business and feel stuck

• the company is falling behind the competition

2. organizational structure isn’t serving your mission

• organizational structure, roles, and responsibilities are unclear

• expectations don’t match available resources and capabilities

• reward system doesn’t incentivize the performance standards and behaviors you want

• teams don’t have the authority, power and influence to get things done

• different functions are adapting to change at different speeds

3. systems and process aren’t consistent across teams + functions

• teamwork and collaboration are hit and miss

• communication and feedback are weak

• project management isn’t getting results

• problem solving and decision making lack a predictable road map

• meeting management is poor, from preparation to follow-up

4. leaders lack the self-awareness to lead and manage effectively

• leadership styles clash and are imbalanced

• unconstructive conflict or inappropriate behavior arise too often

• leadership development and succession planning fall short

• people don’t feel safe to ask questions, challenge the way things are done, offer new ideas, and take risks

• workday events demotivate and negatively impact performance

Problems like these can drag down efficiency and productivity, consume time, and distract teams from focusing on the challenges and opportunities in the marketplace. As problems linger and their impacts ripple through the company, it becomes harder to build and sustain the culture of mutual trust and respect needed to get results. Too much is at stake to allow that cycle to seed and spread.  

The path forward…

Gazek Consulting diagnoses the root causes and effects of your underlying problems by uncovering patterns, roadblocks, and hidden tensions that undermine productivity and limit results.

Through this lens we jointly assess the effectiveness of current practices to gain insights that can shift mindsets and behaviors - so we can design and forge new pathways to replace problems with possibilities.

As your partner, I facilitate a tailored process of creative problem solving to generate and deliver customized, sustainable solutions that exceed expectations and become part of your company culture.