Lack Of Team Cohesiveness
He keeps coming up with ideas on how to get his management team more cohesive by thinking of ways on how to build team spirit. The article says that the team began hosting employee appreciation events, but after they fancy the staffs of a couple of restaurants, the idea petered out. Now Crugnale wants to try again with taking his employees to outings and awarding them with trips out of the country. i He's fully aware of the importance of having a cohesive employee force, but it seems that his management team doesn't have the sense of ownership that would make them more productive.
Before Mr. Crugnale starts thinking about coming up with building activities, he needs to involve his management team and even his other employees in the decision making process. He needs their ideas and feedback on what works and what doesn't. After all, they are the ones executing the business plan and seeing first hand from the ground what's going on. There's no conflict from his team and his ideas; the team is not challenging Mr. Crugnale's brainstorming because he's not involving them in the process. Instead they are going blindly executing half cooked plans that they had no input of. Since there is no sense of ownership, they don't really care in which direction the business goes. Even his planning on group building activities should be done with his management team and other employees, because they will tell him what it is that attracts them the most. He's not identifying team behavior and how to deal with his team problems.
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