What is seen as strong personalities may be competent people doing what they think is right – in many different directions. I suggest that a manager or team leader focuses on the team structure and access to resources instead of playing psychologist.
As a leader finding solutions or making progress is not the absence of problems, it is looking for what is happening when the problem is absent.
When a team is working well you see people listening, arriving on time, asking questions, having high trust, showing support. How do we create norms for inputs / causes that make a team good?
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Things change without support from Sr Management. Most change is stemming from workarounds created to avoid the perceived bad ideas from Sr Management change initiatives.
Work does not get done according to a solipsistic vision… Work gets done through the interactions of people who have discovered what works best for them in achieving a certain goal / task.
There is nothing wrong with just doing a SWOT… The concern is that without some of the above information you are making strategy based upon limited knowledge and understanding. With limited knowledge and understanding you may miss or not be able to capture opportunities when they present themselves.