Brief
Countless employees are leaving jobs to find workplaces with leader-led cultures that offer support, growth opportunities and engagement, writes Larry Robertson. “Without culture as the central strategic priority and imperative, those workers are done working for you,” Robertson writes.
Insight
Let me say first that I know what you’re going through, and I feel for you. The challenges these past two years have been great, and the messages ringing ceaselessly in your ear are deafening, even discouraging.
Though there are many refrains, there’s that one that says, in a crisis, that you are the one who is supposed to have all the answers. I know how daunting that feels. As if that weren’t enough trouble, there’s the recent communique about a mass exodus going on in workforces everywhere.
The one that may at first have sounded like complaining workers who just want their way but gets harder to just write off, as millions have left their jobs every month for many months now. These constant choruses are worrisome, but more troubling are your responses.
Debunking the myths
Let’s start with that myth about you, the senior leader, having to have all the answers. Late last summer, McKinsey & Co. surveyed over 500 of you about the immediate future and the return to work. Your answers proved you believe the prescience myth, then offered a greater shock.
More than 75% of you not only spoke with certainty about the immediate future but also talked in terms of “a finish line,” as McKinsey termed the pattern. You claimed normalcy would not only return in a matter of just weeks or months, but there would also be a new, seemingly magical status quo returning and remaining for years to come.
In light of the facts apparent to everyone else, it was a stunning claim. Something you might have missed however, was the fact that nearly three-quarters of employees surveyed by McKinsey didn’t believe you, didn’t see the future the same way and lacked faith in your ability to lead as a result.
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