Self-organized Team with Tensions

What's the troll? It sounds very much like a situation someone could find themselves in. There's plenty of orgs. out there being run by complete idiots.
 
Like I've said before, I find these types of discussions interesting anyway regardless of whether the OP is a troll, bot or whatever. Troll threads in this subforum are usually more interesting than human/genuine posts in some other subforums (don't forget even if the OP is a troll the majority of posters in the thread probably aren't).
 
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Haze said:
Most active troll I have ever seen, sure has you guys hook line and sinker
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Probably just a bot fishing for information to feed other services. But as others have said, even if it is, it's a more interesting discussion than most of the drivel in GD.

To OP, if you are genuinely leaderless in this team....then you are going to have to find consensus. Does everyone else on the team agree with your assessment of the situation?
 
Put together an extensive meeting agenda for them to feedback to the team the findings of the trip. Next steps will be for them to write it all up as a proposal on things that could enhance the business in some way. Then you'll all want that distributed so you can critique the accuracy of what they've done. Then another meeting to feedback the findings of the review along with pushback on items found to be wrong so they can redraft documentation. When they have all that to do plus their existing share of team work it will sort the wheat from the chaff.
 
Sally31 said:
Apologies if I sound jealous.


Thanks for the input. This sounds quite reasonable.


It is "the former case": arriving at destination too early and staying too long. Then asking for compensation for all the additional "work" days they had to spend on the business trip.
We don't have any oversight when it comes to business travel. This used to be handled by the group leaders, and they would (or should) make sure that everyone plans their trips responsibly. Since we've moved to a self-organized structure, planning business trips is at the discretion of each employee. If I schedule a 10 day business trip for something that takes 5 days at the most, technically nobody has to approve it. The system works because most of us plan our trips responsibly, don't try to travel as much as possible, and don't overdo it with the paid leave compensation afterwards. And since the company is going full force on the self-organization, I don't see anything like a central travel secretary put in place that is actually running sanity checks on the travel plans. There's an office that can help with bookings, but they just execute your requests no questions asked, because they assume our requests are all totally reasonable.


Our team was given a clear goal and a (vague) deadline, but that's it. And that's already better than a couple of other teams that don't even have a clear goal and instead just fumble along and do their own thing. And the thing about leadership, yeah I'd like some leadership. Having a good leader - someone that can motivate and inspire people and bring out the best in them - is great! However, leadership at our company was a very mixed bag with some rather questionable selections and people with good technical expertise but not so good leadership skills. There were also good leaders, people that were just naturally good at leading due to their compassion and emotional intelligence.

However, it was decided that instead of trying to improve (or remove) the not so good leaders, all leadership at the company should be abolished. Don't get me wrong, there's still a CEO and some people that are vaguely in charge of figuring out a company strategy. But the team leaders, group leaders, department heads etc... they are no more. So now if something in a team is starting to go wrong - e.g. someone not doing their job anymore - it is left to the other team members to correct the situation. The very same team members that have no authority over each other, but are very much affected by a colleague not pulling their weight anymore.
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None of that makes sense. Its a rudderless ship. When someone goes off the reservation as is happening there's no one to rein them in.
 
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