Pros
Incredible benefits package, accessibility of learning and development program, empowerment to make some decisions. Potential for growth. In depth Executive Development Program
Cons
Poor/ lack of transparent succession planning; lack of transparency in decision making. Rampant nepotism in Vienna and Pensacola with people Hiring/recommending all of their friends and family to work there. Inappropriate sexual relationships between management/executive staff and direct reports are commonplace. Poor and/or delayed leadership training leaves front line leaders making bad decisions that are “passed down” from their reporting structure. Promoting people internally too quickly unprepared to be mentoring others on leadership when they themselves are not effective in role promotes cyclical toxic behavior. Overlooking these concerns reinforces (best case) poor or (worth cause) unethical decision making. Continued growth allows senior leaders to turn a blind eye to many obvious problems. Inconsistent across departments/sites/etc. causing many valid employee complaints. “Our members are the mission” is an almost comical tag line since the majority of our 18,000+ employees have no idea what our mission, vision, or values are. In my time with the company, I can only count on one hand the number of leaders who ever really talked about them. - These people were described as “passionate” or “outside of the box thinkers.”
