Low employee performance | Monitoring remote work performance |
Managing unjustified stakeholder assumptions | Understaffed team |
Difficult employees | Managing former coworkers |
Letting employees go | Difficult hiring decisions |
Disengaged employees | Misinformation via word of mouth |
Negative politics | Ineffective and unusable technology |
Projects based on poor strategies and requirements | Budget constraints |
Demanding customers and clients | Stakeholder salience – most vocal stakeholders have little authority |
Low employee throughput and productivity | Poorly organized meetings |
Poorly managed projects | Project stakeholders that don’t support project |
Supply chain disruptions | Low partner performance |
Industry disruption from new technologies | Legacy technologies that are inefficient and unstable |
Employees that lack self-direction and initiative | Employees that require constant support |
Employees that request excessive feedback | Managing an extended workforce including partners, consultants and freelancers |
Employee absenteeism | Inefficient processes |
Administrative overhead such as slow approval processes | Lack of cooperation from other teams |
Increased competitive pressures | Promoting the value of team and accomplishments |
Poor customer relationships | Poor relationships with partners, suppliers and vendors |
Lack of support from upper management | Uncommunicative employees |
Overly communicative employees who seldom work independently | Unrealistic expectations of upper management or stakeholders |
Turnover of key talent | Inability to recruit skilled, talented or experienced employees |
Lack of consistent strategy – priorities changing weekly | Employees who are out-of-touch with industry realities |
Executives who are out-of-touch with operational realities | Workplace drama such as interpersonal conflict |
Employees with inflated expectations for promotions, compensation and recognition | Unnecessary meetings that must be attended nonetheless |
Conflicting stakeholder requirements and demands | Inconsistent policies and enforcement |
A lack of organizational maturity such as structured processes | Slow decision-making |
Lack of authenticity such as a firm that often talks about creativity but isn’t in any way creative | Lack of teamwork such as team members who compete instead of working together |
Inadequate feedback from executives or stakeholders | Executives and stakeholders who don’t help to clear issues |
Stated values of company don’t show up as action | Inconsistent recognition such as a team that is overpraised for an easy deliverable |
Lack of accountability for failures, low performance or noncompliance | Unreasonable deadlines |
Poor working conditions | Lack of authority or resources to fix things |
Lack of authority or resources to satisfy customers | Poor compensation policies that make it difficult to recruit and retain talent |