Dysfunctional Executives. Actions for the CEO

What happens when the problem isn’t one difficult executive, but the executive team itself?

In this episode of The NFP CEO Podcast, Michelle and Danielle explore what CEOs can do when their leadership team is operating in silos, avoiding difficult conversations, undermining decisions or relying on the CEO to resolve disputes.

They discuss:

• The difference between healthy debate and destructive conflict
• Why CEOs need to look at their own leadership role in creating or reinforcing dysfunction
• How functional silos can affect the people and communities an organisation serves
• Why CEOs need to set clear expectations for executive team behaviour
• The importance of accountability for leadership behaviours, not just functional performance
• When coaching, mediation or other interventions may be appropriate
• Why an executive team needs to think beyond individual portfolios and take an organisation-wide view

A key message for CEOs: you can’t manage around executive team dysfunction indefinitely.

If the leadership team isn’t functioning as a team, it ultimately becomes the CEO’s responsibility to address it.

Listen to the episode for a practical conversation about leading a high-performing executive team in a not-for-profit organisation.

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