Practice Management

Consultant Seeks Advice

A consultant sent me this emaial, soliciting advice:

Last week I spent a couple of days with group within my client's organization.  The group was all male with one female.  I was appalled by the pre-pubescent behavior of the males towards the female.  I'm a former Marine, played football in college, I'm not unfamiliar with male environments.  Their behavior towards their own female staff made me uncomfortable.  My test is that I don't want to put our employees in an environment in whichI would be uncomfortable putting my wife or daughter. 

But, it's a really big client.  And, my desire to back away from this client is being challenged by others. 

Our first, agreed-upon principle is that our employees come first.  Great employees, who are truly experts in their area, are harder to come by I think than clients.  This is an interesting test of our application of our principles.

Any suggestions about how best to handle this would be appreciated.

Full post as published by Passion, People and Principles on October 26, 2007 (boomark / email).