One of the reasons I created What Color is Your Elephant? centers around the topics that no one wants to talk about, yet everyone sees and knows about them. There are actually quite a few. The fear of consequences and repercussions may be real, implied, or imagined. Leaders and leadership styles are different. Office cultures vary. What I’ve learned over the years for certain is that silence tends to speak loudly.
There are so many leaders and team members alike who are tired. They’re feeling the burnout. Complete focus on wellness is taking a back seat, with solutions only partially addressed by band-aid remedies. There’s little joy in the journey. Instead, work feels like more of the same mundane routines, less about people and more about quantity than quality.
Leaders, I offer you the advice of listening to what your teams aren’t telling you. If turnover is high but morale is low, offering a day off work isn’t gonna cut it. Teams, if you’re not comfortable talking with management but only talking among yourselves, the likelihood that impactful change will happen is very low.
What Color is Your Elephant? is designed to bring strategic conversations in the room around the deafening silence that’s prohibiting short and long term transformation to take place. And with conversation comes clarity, confidence, and courage to meet and overcome obstacles so that thriving is a reality.
Need guidance to get the conversation started or strategies on how to keep it going for more meaningful, successful outcomes? Let’s chat and make strides to transition, transform, and thrive-together.