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Wednesday, 30 April 2008 |
The Virtual Book Review Network is pleased to interview Steven Vannoy and Craig Ross, authors of Stomp the Elephant in the Office
If the atmosphere in your office is so toxic it feels like a 1,000 pound elephant has taken up residence, know this: you can evict that elephant, get more accomplished and be excited about your job once more. All the steps and strategies to permanently banish the elephant in the workplace – the poor behaviors, attitudes and dysfunctional actions that stop people from getting things done – are outlined in Stomp the Elephant in the Office.
 Stomp the Elephant in the Office
Craig Ross is President of Pathways to Leadership, Inc. and leads the development of Pathways programs and facilitates internationally. His background in education and coaching lends itself to his responsibilities in program development and facilitator training.
LAUREN SMITH: What inspired you to take what you do at Pathways to Leadership and turn it into a book?
The inspiration for the title came from our client-partners. There’s a myth, Lauren, that work has to be a drag; that we have to continuously search for methods to motivate uninspired employees; that results can only improve incrementally. It doesn’t have to be that way! Yet people, leaders at every level, have accepted it as the norm. That’s the elephant: toxic attitudes, poor behaviors – in other words, culture – that everyone is aware of but no one is doing anything about.
Proof that few people are doing anything about it: 66% of corporate strategies are never executed (Ernst and Young); 72% of the work force is disengaged (Gallup). In nearly 85 percent of companies, employees’ morale sharply declines after their first six months, and continues to deteriorate in the years that follow (Sirota, Mischkind and Meltzer). We could go on. There’s a growing band of leaders who are not buying into the myth anymore. They’re using the tools we talk about in the book to stomp the elephant and change how work is getting done. And in the process, they’re changing the lives of those around them.
LAUREN SMITH: Are dysfunctional workplace cultures a bigger problem now as compared to past decades? If so, why?
You could say they are a bigger problem now – and it’s primarily because we as a society are so much more “aware” than we used to be. One person shared, “My father said he used to go to work and he had to ‘hang up his human-ness’ as he went into the office. And then he’d put his ‘human-ness’ back on when he left.”
Many people weren’t even aware that they should, could – and were entitled to – enjoy their job.
So dysfunctional workplaces are a bigger problem now because people want more. They want better. And the few organizations that figure out how to stomp the elephant and deliver that are winning. |
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