If your supervisors struggle to lead, it harms your culture.
Turnover hurdles
You may be seeing turnover because your newly-promoted front line supervisors take an average of 3-5 years to become decent leaders.
During this slow ramp phase, inexperienced leaders alienate promising front line workers, who often leave for greener pastures.
High training costs
They say in wastewater if you make it through that first 9 months to one year, then you’re probably gonna stay for awhile. But the very beginning period is tricky for almost everyone you hire, and the cost of replacing even trained junior hires is very expensive.
Permit violations
We all know how costly permit violations can be, and being in violation places extra stress, scrutiny and financial burdens on your plant. If you’re dealing with culture challenges that are keeping your agency in a “high-stress zone”, violations will only amplify your problem and burn morale.
About
Bob Donaldson
CEO of The Lost Art of Collaboration
I’m a leadership development expert with 40 years of turning managers into out-in-front leaders. My journey began as an operations manager at a wastewater treatment plant in the 80s.
The place had just been through a rough labor strike. The culture was in crisis and bad blood was flowing. I tried to help clean things up and was met with a mountain of resistance. My car was keyed in the company parking lot. My tires were slashed too. Then I befriended the general manager and he gave me the mandate to turn things around.
In a few short years we went from a permit-violating industry joke to an award-winning leader. We mastered innovation and continuous improvement. Now I’m working with leaders in California Wastewater. I help treatment plants in crisis and turn them around. I help agencies just-getting-by restart their innovation. And I help solid organizations maximize their potential and attract and keep the best talent. Let's get in touch and we’ll see if I can help you do the same.
About Bob Donaldson
CEO of The Lost Art of Collaboration
I’m a leadership development expert with 40 years of turning managers into out-in-front leaders. My journey began as an operations manager at a wastewater treatment plant in the 80s.
The place had just been through a rough labor strike. The culture was in crisis and bad blood was flowing. I tried to help clean things up and was met with a mountain of resistance. My car was keyed in the company parking lot. My tires were slashed too. Then I befriended the general manager and he gave me the mandate to turn things around.
In a few short years we went from a permit-violating industry joke to an award-winning leader. We mastered innovation and continuous improvement. Now I’m working with leaders in California Wastewater. I help treatment plants in crisis and turn them around. I help agencies just-getting-by restart their innovation. And I help solid organizations maximize their potential and attract and keep the best talent. Let's get in touch and we’ll see if I can help you do the same.
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