🙋 Ask this question as in (interim) manager during an intake/interview:
“What answers/solutions to your problems/challenges do you actually already know or have been told by your employees, but you just don’t dare to act upon?”
In most of my assignments I’m hired to help out when problems are bigger than the company can solve themselves. They need an outside look on things or just an interim manager to fix things. In my experience, a lot of the solutions are already known. They just don’t act. Management doesn’t dare to, or they need an outsider to confirm thing and clean things up. I once even opened my analysis of what’s going on with the following single sentence on a slide.
🤨 “What if everything I’m going to tell you, has already been told to you by your employees? Why would you listen now?”
âť“What are your experiences with this?