2. Ten Common Challenges
How do your challenges relate to the ten challenges shared by leaders everywhere?
Evaluate the challenges you face against these challenges that are common in most organizations. What stands out to you as challenges you and your organization must solve?
There are so many “high-priority” projects or initiatives that you feel like it can be easy to lose sight of what merits your full attention, effort, and focus.
The culture of your organization (or team) is not primed to support the change required to solve your most pressing problems.
You have observed that your organization needs development efforts that result in stronger and more cohesive leadership from your team of executives and managers.
There is a member of your management team who - while technically proficient - creates interpersonal problems among their team members.
You are facing resource constraints requiring real change to achieve peak performance without adding additional resources.
Your executive stakeholders (including oversight committees or business advisory boards) do not appear to grasp the realities of your organization, and you need to find ways to take charge of how you are understood.
You have a good strategy to help your organization achieve measurable improvement quickly but you can sense that others resist the idea.
Your organization is siloed and this is keeping your team from unifying around what does the most good for the larger purpose of your organization as a whole.
You have a major change coming (like replacing your IT system or significant organizational change) and you can sense that your organization is not completely ready to make that change successful (short and long term).
You have identified important organizational problems to solve but you need to find ways to influence those with more formal power to recognize the significance of these problems.