Reflective Reflection On Leadership

I’d like to preface any reflection by sharing that I have experience working in this type of environment, and believe that the leadership of my team does a great job of communicating state of the business monthly. We have a meeting at the end of every month where the director invites a finance representative over our department to share the EBITDA numbers. In having this communication monthly, management does a great job of shielding us from surprises or uncertainties revolving around the state of the business. In addition to sharing the numbers, we talk about any challenges we are facing as a business and what we can do to help move things in a positive direction. One could say that our organizational leaders do their part in embedding the vision and growth strategy. So, this could be more of a preventative action, but doesn’t help in this case.

1) Communicating with candor
As a senior manager I would understand that no matter how the message is delivered that I must be completely honest and transparent with my team. This is obviously critical to the morale of the team and the message should be treated with seriousness. This isn’t a conversation to be had over email or telephone. Every

These employees keep their eye on the prize for the entire year and prioritize their work with company results in mind. Now the end of the year has come and it seems that although they’ve done everything in their power to succeed, it doesn’t matter. The outside factors of the business are too great to have overcome any internal efforts that could’ve been put into place. Now we are left with employees that are no longer motivated but possibly feeling defeated. To further complicate things, the very structure that was put in place to motivate employees is now a