#Beingaleader means you need to understand and lead change management. What it is. How to properly implement it. Know how it affects those on your team and potentially those not on your team.
Change management isn’t about the change itself. It’s about the process of identifying, creating and implementing that change. You can have people in favor of the changes but hate the process. Or you could have people who only become in favor of the change during the process of implementation itself. So, how you implement the change is critical to your success.
Changing of the seasons is a natural process. Depending on where you live, you might get all four seasons. It is inevitable. It will happen no matter what we might want in the moment. But other change isn’t always as predictable, anticipated or welcome. At least not by all members of your team. So you need to go through a process of explaining. Of involving. Of creating buy-in from key players. It’s the management of the change that’s the hardest part.
Meeting with key leaders. Gathering intel. Prototyping. Trying something small before going company or division wide with the change. Starting small and growing from there. It’s just human nature to be suspect of change. The larger the change the bigger the suspicion. It’s up to you to decrease the suspicion and increase the buy-in. That’s part of #Beingaleader.
#Beingaleader means you need to understand change management. And the people it affects.