Background
Many of us make friends in the workplace the same way that we do in the supermarket or at the mall. In fact, our coworkers are individuals who often receive us at the our most alert, our best dressed and our best mannered. After all, work is where we go to earn our daily bread.
Yesterday, I participated in a departmental restructing meeting. Presentation after presentation passed with coworkers hand-selected to present their area's processes. They showed flow charts and expanding upon their ideas to tell what they are doing both now and what they intend to do, including changes they intend to make.
On the surface this sounds like a great exercise, but in practice, the real tone of the department raised its ugly head. Presentations given by more tenured members of the team lacked vision. True, on occasion they spoke of the challenges they expect, they told their fellow department members where the team was going, but it still lacked vision.
If something is forward-looking, how can it lack vision?
True, I was fortunate to be part of these meetings. As the newest team member, I feel that it is privilege to see where the department is heading, but when I recognized the gaps (especially those in communication), all the smoke and mirrors in the world could not save the team.
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Copyright © 2007 David ben-Avram
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