{"id":1957,"date":"2023-01-09T14:53:03","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T14:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vitalorg.co.uk\/?p=1957"},"modified":"2025-02-10T15:01:32","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T15:01:32","slug":"is-it-time-you-cleared-out-the-deadwood-in-your-organisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitalorg.co.uk\/index.php\/2023\/01\/09\/is-it-time-you-cleared-out-the-deadwood-in-your-organisation\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it time you cleared out the \u201cdeadwood\u201d in your organisation?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1957\" class=\"elementor elementor-1957\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-3a96dd15 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"3a96dd15\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-7563ce73\" data-id=\"7563ce73\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-412a8e9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"412a8e9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.21.0 - 08-05-2024 *\/\n.elementor-column .elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--spacer-size)}.e-con{--container-widget-width:100%}.e-con-inner>.elementor-widget-spacer,.e-con>.elementor-widget-spacer{width:var(--container-widget-width,var(--spacer-size));--align-self:var(--container-widget-align-self,initial);--flex-shrink:0}.e-con-inner>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container,.e-con>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container{height:100%;width:100%}.e-con-inner>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer,.e-con>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer{height:100%}.e-con-inner>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer>.elementor-spacer-inner,.e-con>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer>.elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--container-widget-height,var(--spacer-size))}.e-con-inner>.elementor-widget-spacer.elementor-widget-empty,.e-con>.elementor-widget-spacer.elementor-widget-empty{position:relative;min-height:22px;min-width:22px}.e-con-inner>.elementor-widget-spacer.elementor-widget-empty .elementor-widget-empty-icon,.e-con>.elementor-widget-spacer.elementor-widget-empty .elementor-widget-empty-icon{position:absolute;top:0;bottom:0;left:0;right:0;margin:auto;padding:0;width:22px;height:22px}<\/style>\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-038d184 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"038d184\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-d38d1ba\" data-id=\"d38d1ba\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d5d3c62 elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-title elementor-page-title elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"d5d3c62\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"theme-post-title.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.21.0 - 08-05-2024 *\/\n.elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px}<\/style><h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Is it time you cleared out the \u201cdeadwood\u201d in your organisation?<\/h1>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b2ee3ed elementor-align-center elementor-widget elementor-widget-raven-post-meta\" data-id=\"b2ee3ed\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"raven-post-meta.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"raven-inline-items raven-icon-list-items raven-post-meta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"raven-icon-list-item elementor-repeater-item-1ffcf6d raven-inline-item\" itemprop=\"author\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/vitalorg.co.uk\/index.php\/author\/ben\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"raven-icon-list-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-user-circle\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"raven-icon-list-text raven-post-meta-item raven-post-meta-item-type-author\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"raven-post-meta-item-prefix\">Author:<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBen\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-dcfaf87 elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-featured-image elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"dcfaf87\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"theme-post-featured-image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.21.0 - 08-05-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=\".svg\"]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" src=\"https:\/\/vitalorg.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2023-01-07-13.15.59-scaled.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-1959\" alt=\"Cutting out deadwood\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vitalorg.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2023-01-07-13.15.59-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/vitalorg.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2023-01-07-13.15.59-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vitalorg.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2023-01-07-13.15.59-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/vitalorg.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2023-01-07-13.15.59-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/vitalorg.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2023-01-07-13.15.59-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/vitalorg.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2023-01-07-13.15.59-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\"><\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-03e8d95 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"03e8d95\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-b89baa5\" data-id=\"b89baa5\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3089417 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3089417\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.21.0 - 08-05-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p>Springtime is the right time to get out in the garden with the pruning shears and reshape your fruit trees ahead of their next phase of growth.\u00a0 We imply something similar when we talk about \u201cdeadwood\u201d in the context of organisations.\u00a0 Only we are talking about people not vegetation.<\/p><h2>What or who is for the knife?<\/h2><p>Deming observed that 95% of performance (good or bad) results from the system and only 5% from the people.\u00a0 Following that theme this post will present the idea that it is &#8220;the system&#8221; that we should be attacking with a sharp instrument, not human beings.<\/p><h2>Why change the system?<\/h2><p>When we first completed the research that underpins the <a href=\"http:\/\/vitalorg.co.uk\/index.php\/the-vitality-index\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vitality Index<\/a> it was way back in 1990.\u00a0 In 2010 when we reran the research, on aggregate and based on the organisations in our samples the Vitality of UK organisations had dropped by something like 5 percentage points.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8b39bbe elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"8b39bbe\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>\u201cVitality\u201d is an umbrella term that we use that encompasses employee experience, adaptability, and ability to innovate.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p><p><strong>We package these three things together because they are the unavoidable consequences of a set of 26 practices that our research identified. <\/strong><\/p><p><strong>If you adopt the practices, you will get these outcomes &#8211; all of them; you can\u2019t pick and choose &#8211; sorry.<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-96e88c3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"96e88c3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2>What changed between 1990 &amp; 2010?<\/h2><h2>The rate of change, that\u2019s what.<\/h2><p>A lot happened between 1990 and 2010.\u00a0 The internet happened for a start and brought with it entirely new ways of doing business, building relationships, communicating as well as opening-up a whole new world of easy-to-access information.\u00a0 This combined with a whole heap of other new technologies meant that the rate of change in the external environment accelerated to a whole new level.\u00a0 And yet in the same intervening time the ability of our organisations to adapt deteriorated.\u00a0 And that in spite of the zillions of words written on the subject of how to manage change in a VUCA world.<\/p><h2>If the world was speeding up, why were organisations slowing down?<\/h2><p>This is the $6M dollar question.\u00a0 Our research was able to indicate and broadly quantify the slow-down but was not designed to identify the why.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><p>Based on our observations however, we have a hunch. \u00a0 In this time organisations seemed to get taller, with more layers of management, and wider with much more functional specialism (i.e. in these two decades procurement became widely professionalised, the ratio of HR people to numbers employed exploded).\u00a0 So much more of everyone\u2019s work was done within the constraints of an IT system (great for visibility, efficiency and consistency, not so good for continual improvement and adaptation).\u00a0 \u00a0 Industrial regulation widened to affect more sectors and deepened in its complexity and implications.\u00a0 A net result of all of these, and other factors, is that organisations became much more cumbersome, getting things done was rarely straight forward. The risk aversion of leaders also infected the mindset of anyone in the organisation with decision authority . Thus, to \u201cprevent the worst happening\u201d, processes, procedures and rules proliferated, and decisions got slowed by passing them up to the boss.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><p><em><strong>Sorry for the loaded question, but what do you think the net effect of all of these factors might be on an organisation&#8217;s ability to offer a great employee experience, to be nimble, adaptive and to innovate?<\/strong><\/em><\/p><h2>What is bureaucratic drift?<\/h2><p>Processes, procedures, rules and authorisation levels all have their place, but have you ever noticed how much more common it is for process and procedure to get added and for rules and authorisation requirements to tighten than it is for them to be removed or relaxed? \u00a0 In the absence of this removal \/ relaxation activity,\u00a0year on year, the level of bureaucracy grows without anybody really noticing, a bit like <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Boiling_frog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">boiling a frog<\/a>. So, unless there is a routine and deliberate effort to prune back the ever-expanding bureaucracy, we should expect our organisations to fall into a state that we call bureaucratic drift, becoming more and more bogged down in resource sapping and unrewarding activity which is of questionable value.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><h2>How might we go about the job of pruning?\u00a0<\/h2><p>When teams in organisations use the <a href=\"http:\/\/vitalorg.co.uk\/index.php\/the-vitality-index\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vitality Index<\/a>, we help them make changes in the form of safe-to-try experiments.\u00a0 Thanks to the research-based diagnostic capability of the Index, the teams are directed towards specific areas of practice that have the greatest potential for each individual team. \u00a0 Drawing on the knowledge contained in the Vitality Playbook, and the tacit knowledge in our heads, we offer some ideas to stimulate their own suggestions.\u00a0 We always encourage the team towards changes that lighten the bureaucratic load, rather than add to it.\u00a0 Here are some examples:\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><ul><li>Rather than adding a new report, meeting or agenda item, how about removing something that seems to add no value and see what happens?<\/li><li>Search for and scrap processes \/ systems that have become institutionalised &#8211; the ones that may have had some value in the past but have outlived their \u2018see-by-date\u2019.<\/li><li>Locate processes that are justified under the name of \u2018control\u2019 and check to see what actual control there is.\u00a0 Or do we just have the \u2018illusion of control\u2019 but none in reality?<\/li><li>Check the \u2018earners and spenders\u2019 ratio.\u00a0 Earners are the people who generate the organisations income and add value to customers.\u00a0 Spenders do not.\u00a0 Shift spenders to more added-value roles, especially those that add value to customers.<\/li><li>Crowd source to find out what is currently most difficult for and frustrating to employees and what they would like to see changed.\u00a0 And then engage them with the change process, from the why to the what to the how.<\/li><li>Check to see how time is occupied with routine, repetitive activities &#8211; that are a bit like running hard on the spot, but don\u2019t generate forward movement.\u00a0 Then engage people in stuff that will improvement performance in some way &#8211; the one-off tasks and events that will create movement<\/li><li>Search for opportunities to replace tight, prescriptive rules with broad guidelines &#8211; and work out with the people involved what they should be.<\/li><\/ul><h2>Be bold; unlike the work of secateurs, pruning bureaucracy is reversible<\/h2><p>&#8220;Safe-to-try&#8221; is the key here, all changes can be made in some way partial, time bound or reversible, so in way there is nothing to lose and learning is guaranteed.\u00a0 So no need to be timid, <em><strong>be radical.<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0 Unlike other forms of pruning accidents you wont be left trying to re-graft limbs onto trees or losing the wrong people.\u00a0<\/p><p>Be bold, explore, experiment, have fun and whatever you do, don&#8217;t drift into a place you don&#8217;t want to be.<\/p><p>This post was written by Ben, he likes nothing more than helping with teams as they bushwhack their way through the bureaucratic entanglements that frustrate them and stifle the organisations&#8217; performance.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8fe5e52 elementor-post-navigation-borders-yes elementor-widget elementor-widget-post-navigation\" data-id=\"8fe5e52\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"post-navigation.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"https:\/\/vitalorg.co.uk\/wp-content\/plugins\/elementor-pro\/assets\/css\/widget-theme-elements.min.css\">\t\t<div 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href=\"https:\/\/vitalorg.co.uk\/index.php\/2023\/01\/30\/teams-in-flow\/\" rel=\"next\"><span class=\"elementor-post-navigation__link__next\"><span class=\"post-navigation__next--label\">Next<\/span><span class=\"post-navigation__next--title\">Great performance comes from flow<\/span><\/span><span class=\"post-navigation__arrow-wrapper post-navigation__arrow-next\"><i class=\"fa fa-angle-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><span class=\"elementor-screen-only\">Next<\/span><\/span><\/a>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-15fedae elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"15fedae\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div 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class=\"raven-divider\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"raven-divider-line raven-divider-solid\"><\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-74c5550 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"74c5550\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Let's talk<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bbedb9c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"bbedb9c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>The conversation has the potential to change the future of your organisation.<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c793ec1 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