Tigard Swot Analysis
Strengths
Supporting Company Mission
When my company decided to close their office Tigard, Oregon, impacting over 800 employees. For me, it meant more than ever, as a leader that I needed to keep sight of the company’s ultimate purpose and keep the mission front and center for everyone. Employee morale was down, they felt betrayed, but we still had six months to go! It took talent and guts, and the awareness of the mission, and that this was the best path for the company. This took guts and talent to communicate, that empowered with training programs, one on one and group meetings, a lot of listening and talking, we charted each of our personal feelings. The feelings recorded the first day were mostly anger and confusion, each day I …show more content…
For me, I am less likely to get stuck in the petty frustrations of daily life and able to keep an eye on what’s really important. I have always had a messy desk (at work and home). I think it confirms I have an active mind. I am creative and enjoy new ideas and concepts. At work, my peers would frequently comment how creative I was motivating my team. It was fun to think outside the box and my team was happy to take part in my schemes. I felt it was important for everyone to be part of the team, have input on how we do things. So, I decided to make teams within my team. Each team had a purpose, training, communications, recognition, and fun. The groups would meet once a month to make plans and then communicate with me for implementation. This way the team became theirs and not mine. The training sessions became more what they wanted to learn like how to manage their email, and not what I thought they wanted to learn. It brought us together as a team, for instance, at work in a lip synch and choreography contest, my team and I creatively performed “Stop in the Name of Love”. We won first prize, a $150 gift card to be used towards a team outing! To start each morning with a 10-minute stretching work out, it got us working out together as a team, laughing and pumped us up for the
Supporting Company Mission
When my company decided to close their office Tigard, Oregon, impacting over 800 employees. For me, it meant more than ever, as a leader that I needed to keep sight of the company’s ultimate purpose and keep the mission front and center for everyone. Employee morale was down, they felt betrayed, but we still had six months to go! It took talent and guts, and the awareness of the mission, and that this was the best path for the company. This took guts and talent to communicate, that empowered with training programs, one on one and group meetings, a lot of listening and talking, we charted each of our personal feelings. The feelings recorded the first day were mostly anger and confusion, each day I …show more content…
For me, I am less likely to get stuck in the petty frustrations of daily life and able to keep an eye on what’s really important. I have always had a messy desk (at work and home). I think it confirms I have an active mind. I am creative and enjoy new ideas and concepts. At work, my peers would frequently comment how creative I was motivating my team. It was fun to think outside the box and my team was happy to take part in my schemes. I felt it was important for everyone to be part of the team, have input on how we do things. So, I decided to make teams within my team. Each team had a purpose, training, communications, recognition, and fun. The groups would meet once a month to make plans and then communicate with me for implementation. This way the team became theirs and not mine. The training sessions became more what they wanted to learn like how to manage their email, and not what I thought they wanted to learn. It brought us together as a team, for instance, at work in a lip synch and choreography contest, my team and I creatively performed “Stop in the Name of Love”. We won first prize, a $150 gift card to be used towards a team outing! To start each morning with a 10-minute stretching work out, it got us working out together as a team, laughing and pumped us up for the