Vargas brought up several times the problem with relying on consultants to fix your problems. Remember that 85% disengagement number? That’s from a recent Gallup poll. Why have decades of HR and workplace consultants not been able to bring that number up?
Vargas says he’ll often hear CEOs of organizations trying to address their engagement problems by “hiring a hundred consultants on that will leave as soon as they have another job. Most of the current employees are side-lined. What happens in the end? You don’t move or you move to the wrong direction.”
Hiring consultants to fix your organization is like using a Band-Aid. It makes you feel better, like you have taken action. But most of the time, it isn’t needed, and while it can assist in healing, you can’t really move the place where you put the Band-Aid.
Growth requires more than something you can slap on. It requires creating the conditions for change, like encouraging free thinking and supporting innovation, even when it’s not convenient.
Article by James Davis, Editor, HR Daily Advisor
Jul 2020
