Striving Towards Excellence - Vice President ICBA Employee Review

You can quickly earn a lot of vacation time but rarely have the opportunity to use it. Staff is "always on" and taking time away means all your work, plus more, is waited for your to return. Deadlines are assigned even when you're away so when you come back, it can take days or weeks to catch up. Supervisors often issue conditional approval for vacation---you need to be available should something come up so you're asked to keep checking your email. Not good. Some of the newest additions to the leadership team appear to have ulterior motives as they actively work against the CEO and staff to create disruption, dissent and dissatisfaction. One particular high ranking staffer has already started telling people on the outside he's the next CEO because things need to change more rapidly for the organization to stay alive and relevant. This truly is unnerving and uncomfortable to hear. More needs to be done to develop a positive culture where the employees matter. It's starting to change but it needs to become a priority. The office in Minnesota is desperately seeking relevance and often demands authority or control instead of working with others in the organization. Again, an older workforce who likely sees the writing on the wall but refuses to read what it says.