First off, I want to say I do like my job. I enjoy my WORK. When I am allowed to do it.
I say this because the senior managers are OBSESSED with gimmicks like Gemba Walks and Kaizen events and filling out A3 reports and doing spreadsheets. I do see a point to them to a point, but not when doing these things gets in the way of deliverig real things that can provide real results.
I was trying to put together a training (as I'm a training manager) and my boss asked me to do a project plan. Which, I did for myself in the form of a learning plan, which is what educators do. But I had to do THEIR report with all these deliverables and measureables (which don't have anything to do with learning at all). And their report is based more on production than what it is I'M doing.
I literally had to stop doing actual work that addressed the problem so I could do a project plan to discuss how I was going to address the situation.
I have develped over 100 learning documents, training vidoes, all sorts of things. Over 10 gigs of documents, These are real things.
You can see what I've developed. These senior managers and EVPs…I see NOTHING that they create. They create NOTHING but reports for me to do.
Why do they exist? Do they exist to do this, or do they exist because this is the only work they can do?