Saving a Struggling Team or Business
Marcia Daszko
Strategic Leadership Consultant & Coach, Speaker Facilitating Experiential, High-Content, FUN Sessions ??Board Director, CMO??Book Author, Teach AI Prompts??Deming Management Expert, MBA Lecturer ??Bizwomen Columnist
Q. Some of our teams have struggled, but now our company is struggling. How can we turn these around?
A. At various times, teams and organizations struggle, flounder, and some fail. It’s not uncommon, but for the staff and customers involved, it can be disheartening, frustrating, or catastrophic. In the Bay area, 90% of startups fail. And of the corporations listed on the first Fortune 500 list in 1955, more than 70% of them no longer exist. Failure is an option. But does it need to be?
To guide you in how to turnaround a team or business takes an assessment of where you currently are and how you got there. What are the root causes that took you on this declining journey? Someone who is knowledgeable in business systems can assess your situation and give you some insightful perspectives. Your openness to learning and trying some new approaches will be needed for your success. If you want to do what you’ve been doing, you’ll continue to struggle.
Consider what you’re trying to accomplish on your team and how it contributes to your business. Deeply understand your customers. Talk to them, and watch them using your service and products. How can you serve them better? How can you support them? Is it easy to contact you if they have a problem?
Most struggling businesses or teams are not clear with what they need to do Together; don’t have free-flowing information or communication; lack focus or training or the materials to do the job; and have too many barriers and internal competition to excel. Look at how decisions are made. Do you look at data over time? What is the culture? Are people happy about delighting your customers?
Connect the dots. Your team is like a jigsaw puzzle, and the pieces need to fit together. The more self-aware you are, the better. Put the problems out on the table. Listen to the ideas from everyone to improve.
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BIO:
Marcia Daszko works with Boards, C-suite leaders and teams to guide their leadership transformation to accelerate and achieve bold results never before imagined. She is a provocative keynote, breakout, and digital speaker for conferences and corporate events. She has been a strategic business advisor and management consultant based on Dr. Deming’s philosophy of leadership for 25+ years. An executive retreat facilitator and MBA professor, she is also the bestselling author of the book “Pivot Disrupt Transform.” Contact Marcia Daszko for her help at [email protected] www.mdaszko.com
I Help Shy Introverts Build Confidence to Get New Opportunities! | Former Shy Engineer ?? ?? Confident Public Speaker, Career Coach, and ?? Program Manager | PMP
1 年I would add share best practices across teams. It saves time when everyone is using a proven and efficient solution Marcia!
The Product Guy ? Championing "Purpose Driven Innovation" ? 3X Top LinkedIn Voice ? Founding Partner @ Venturis Inc with the stated mission of "Bridging The Valleys" ? Global Citizen
1 年Insightful!! Openness to learning and doing a very honest self-assessment is so important. It seems very simple and obvious, however most organizations fail because of the lack of openness to learn..
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1 年Marcia Daszko, This is a great post! Hopefully, the management of companies whose culture and direction are not coordinated will read your article and contact you for a discussion.