My team has very intelligent people on it. If Senior Management listened to them and their concerns this company would be unstoppable. I have never found any change request to our processes to be unreasonable or illogical.
Sr Leadership should appreciate its employees and celebrate successes. Compensation should be given with promotion. Sr Leadership should clear road blocks for employees within its processes. Better technical training should be given, greater education should be rewarded and encouraged.
More honest categorization of employees is needed on every level. Evaluate the jobs you have people in with their labor category/day to day work. Give management and leads pay to be management and leads. What's the point of striving for promotion if you don't get compensated for it?
Sr leadership could do a better job at listening. Staying positive. "If everything is a priority, nothing is a priority." They could be more selective on what they force into unrealistic timelines. Treating issues as a chance to learn instead of an opportunity to berate employees in front of others.
The requirements for promotion are inconsistent and change based on who you talk to. Company should provide clear roadmap for what is needed to be promoted and what is expected that is different in each position. Once the roadmap is created for each position it needs to be clearly communicated.