Is your organisation breeding headless chickens?

(A tongue-in-cheek questionnaire.)

Please count the number of questions to which you can answer YES:

1. Is there a lack of a long-term plan?

2. Is the performance review system largely ignored or implemented in a half-hearted way?

3. Does your management team cancel their meetings on a regular basis?

4. Do meetings happen without agendas circulated beforehand?

5. Do managers check their emails while you’re talking to them?

6. Do your people shout at each other more than once a day?

7. Do your people lack finger nails?

8. Do they stutter and twitch inordinately?

9. Do they drink more than 8 cups of coffee a day?

10. Has anyone ever been strangled by telephone cable tightened around the neck?

11. Is there a complete absence of objective-setting in a formalised way?

12. Do people talk in loud voices and wave their arms around most of the time?

13. Did you stop filling in this questionnaire half way through?

Scoring

If you answered YES to seven or more questions, you’re probably breeding headless chickens.

Solution

Try to get people to think through the plusses and minuses of being a headless chicken. And if you’d like more ideas on how to challenge that way of doing things, we’d be pleased to talk them through with you. Please drop us an email or give us a call on 01865 736005.

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