Executive Enema

Managers eventually come across the underperforming department, facility or business unit during their career. We have a resonsibility to help these teams turnaround for the sake of the employees, the company and our bonuses. We gather some other mid-managers or executives to pool our expertise and apply it to the problem (yes, problem not challenge, issue or opportunity). We all agree that we have to make some scheduling sacrifices to micro-manage the place and get the team together or line them up to be replaced. Then the "team" goes to the facility. We pull together the facility's upper management with the "team", then squeeze them into the biggest office we can find. There is an agenda and outline of responsibilities. We cover all of the ways that each "team" member will support the location with visits at least once a week for the foreseeable future. Each visit will involve specific managers from the facility, a checklist (yay), and accountability to action items on the next visit. It is a management dream with all of the components intended to make the facility feel important and supported. After all, we want to protect their morale and motivate the team. (Read: cover our butts, if the place self-destructs and we have to terminate folks.) The final results: 5 members of upper management will but up the behinds of the management team in that facility until they improve or remove - the executive enema. Welcome to the cleansing.