Elephant in the Room…

13. Mai 2025

QUESTION:
Whatโ€™s the ๐๐ข๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐ž๐ซ๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž between an …
๐Ÿ˜ ๐š๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐š๐ ๐ž ๐ˆ๐๐*
and an
๐Ÿ˜Š ๐š๐ฐ๐ž๐ฌ๐จ๐ฆ๐ž ๐ˆ๐๐*?

ANSWER:
Itโ€™s the capability of the cross-functional team to
๐Ÿ‘‰ ๐ข๐๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐Ÿ๐ฒ ,
โœ๏ธ ๐ง๐š๐ฆ๐ž and
๐Ÿค๐’‹๐’๐’Š๐’๐’•๐’๐’šย ๐š๐๐๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ
the โ€œ๐ž๐ฅ๐ž๐ฉ๐ก๐š๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ซ๐จ๐จ๐ฆ.โ€

And these elephants could take many forms:

๐Ÿ˜ Sandbagging in budget planning due to ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฌ๐š๐ฅ๐ข๐ ๐ง๐ž๐ ๐ข๐ง๐œ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž ๐ฌ๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ฆ๐ฌ
๐Ÿ˜ Upcoming supply issues due to ๐ฅ๐š๐œ๐ค ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ช๐ฎ๐š๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐œ๐ฎ๐ฌ
๐Ÿ˜ Material shortage due to ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐๐ž๐ฉ๐ž๐ง๐๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐จ๐ง ๐š ๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฅ๐ž ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ข๐ž๐ซ
๐Ÿ˜ Retention risk due to ๐ญ๐จ๐ฑ๐ข๐œ ๐ฅ๐ž๐š๐๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐ก๐ข๐ฉ ๐›๐ž๐ก๐š๐ฏ๐ข๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฌ
๐Ÿ˜ Failure of high investment projects due to ๐œ๐ซ๐จ๐ฌ๐ฌ-๐๐ž๐ฉ๐š๐ซ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐š๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฐ๐ž๐ซ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ ๐ ๐ฅ๐ž๐ฌ
๐Ÿ˜ … do you have „elephants in the room“ โ“

At HELIBLICK GmbH, we have developed a simple and powerful team development workshop format to bring these issues to the surface โ€” and to create a constructive, trust-based space to deal with them.

๐ˆ๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ข๐ง๐ฏ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ž๐š๐ฆ ๐๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ฅ๐จ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ? – Please drop me a note for an informal chat.

Kind regards,
Helmut

PS: Thanks to Fiona Tribe for the inspiring quote.

*๐˜๐˜‰๐˜—=๐˜๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜จ๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ ๐˜‰๐˜ถ๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ด ๐˜—๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฏ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ

 

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