Pros
I like the partners that I work with and feel a valued part of those teams. There are also lots of good, like minded colleagues.
Cons
The IMC team is in survival mode only. Leadership is openly and damagingly competitive, entirely disingenuous, and situations are manipulated for personal gain; to control the narrative. This is well known, isn’t new, and this behaviour continues to be rewarded. What a way to drive a culture. People who put others down to be the best, always seemingly being the ones who ‘save the day’, determined to demonstrate how powerful they are, are held up as something to aspire to. Work is a mind game. Constant micro management is stifling and exhausting and it hinders creativity and productivity. You have to third guess your every move for worry of doing or saying the wrong thing or being blamed for something you were actually ASKED to do. Decisions aren’t explained, because they’re not understood, and there’s no strategy other than playing a game to win favour from the people who are deemed to matter. All the successes we have are despite these challenges not because of them. Poor mental health is a real issue in the team and it’s getting worse. We’ve lost respected leaders. Now the team is built solely on favouritism and only game players are rewarded. People daren’t speak up. Those that haven’t fitted the mould have been unfairly dealt with, held up as examples of what could happen with a wry smile, or have left because they couldn’t compromise themselves any longer. Anonymous feedback internally isn’t trusted.