Quiz - Seven Leadership Team Failure Factors

a) Our team/organization is overloaded with too many priorities and conflicting activities.*

Speed Traps and Tyranny of the Urgent

b) Our team/organization loads new projects and goals on top of existing workloads without rigorous "stop doing" pruning to make room for them.*

Speed Traps and Tyranny of the Urgent

c) Change programs, improvement projects, development initiatives, and organizational strategies aren’t aligned/coordinated.*

Partial and Piecemeal Programs and Pieces

d) We bolt-on rather than build-in and integrate our development efforts.*

Partial and Piecemeal Programs and Pieces

e) Our leaders focusing on changing others rather than looking in the mirror.*

Leadership Lip Service

f) Leaders rarely get unfiltered or anonymous feedback on their behavior.*

Leadership Lip Service

g) Our team/organization invests little time in culture/leadership development.*

Culture/Capacity Development

h) Our planning is focused mostly on budgets and operations.*

Culture/Capacity Development

i) Our meetings are less effective because of unhelpful behaviors and weak group dynamics.*

Teams Not Pulling Together

j) Team members mostly focus on his/her silo and show little cross-functional collaboration.*

Teams Not Pulling Together

k) Our team isn’t united in our strategic priorities and often send conflicting messages.*

Communication Breakdowns

l) We have “moose issues” blocking our effectiveness.*

Communication Breakdowns

m) We spend a lot of time in reactive firefighting focused on operational issues.*

Failing to Focus and Follow Through

n) We aren’t disciplined in following up on our plans and strategies.*

Failing to Focus and Follow Through

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Quiz – Seven Leadership Team Failure Factors