“Mr. CEO… Tear down those walls!”
Getting to a leadership position within an organization is no easy feet… leadershp spend years studying their craft formally/informally, they may have taken a “risk” when others didn’t, and consider the time spent on the job and the number of personal sacrifices made just to name a few. So getting to the top entails being “at the top” of something, and in most cases it’s an organization chart.
Our consulting practice assessments reflect that more times than not, the leaders in organizations erect silos, or become territorial when it comes to leading their divisions/departments. For example, not only will the geographically dispersed offices of New York, NY and Los Angeles, CA not be on the same page, but within the Los Angeles, CA office Sales doesn’t cooperate with Operations, and neither works effectively with Accounting (Don’t even get us started on who works effectively with Human Resources!)
In 2010 at Pathos Leadership Group we conducted a large scale initiative to eradicate leadership silos present within an organization. Stage II of the initiative had us work with senior leadership to identify similarities/differences within the leaders, and their respective departments. Stage II had us work with the next level of leadership, and Stage III and Stage IV saw us engage the front-line leaders and organization associates. The goal of this initiative was twofold: (1) tear down the leadership silos and (2) get everyone in the organization on the same page working towards their mission, vision, and values while approaching the annual goals/objectives established.
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