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#082: How to Keep Your Team Aligned During Times of Intense Change [Podcast]
The key to keeping your team aligned in the midst of change or chaos is communication. Unfortunately, most leaders are not intentional about this. They either don’t communicate or don’t have a plan for rolling their message out. The result is that people are left to create their own narrative about what is happening.
If you are going to be an effective leader, you must be deliberate in keeping your team informed. If you don’t, you will create a tremendous amount of “sideways energy” as people speculate and come to the wrong conclusion.
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You can keep your team aligned in the midst of significant organizational change—or crisis—by taking these six steps:
Determine what you want to communicate.
Commit the message to writing.
Secure alignment with your leadership team.
Contact influential stakeholders—personally.
Announce the change through available media channels.
Make yourself available to answer questions.
Listener Questions
Steve asked, “What do you do when you are blind-sided by a customer with news about your company that turns out to be true?”
Jeni asked, “Do you think the communications strategy you outlined in a recent blog post applies to churches and other non-profits as well?”
Brad asked, “I understand the communications strategy when it comes to public announcements, but what about information that is more sensitive, like why you terminated someone?”
Maria asked, “We just don’t have time in our company to communicate as well as we would like. With the continued tough economy, we have fewer people trying to do the same work. What do you suggest? How can we find time to communicate in this context?”
Special Announcements
Registration is now open for the Launch Conference, April 7-10 at the beautiful Hilton Orlando Lake Buena Vista, located in the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida. Early Bird Registration ends on February 14th. BUT, you can take an additional $200 off the early bird pricing by using the code “HYATT.”
Episode Resources
In this episode I mentioned several resources, including:
Conference: The Launch Conference
Post: How Do Leaders Create Alignment?
Screencast: How to Launch a Self-Hosted WordPress Blog in 20 Minutes or LessDownload: My Ideal Week (PDF)
Software: Evernote
Software: Google Alerts
Software: Mention
Software: Nozbe
Show Transcript
You can download a complete, word-for-word transcript of this episode here, courtesy of Ginger Schell, a professional transcriptionist,
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The key to keeping your team aligned in the midst of change or chaos is communication. Unfortunately, most leaders are not intentional about this. They either don’t communicate or don’t have a plan for rolling their message out. The result is that people are left to create their own narrative about what is happening.
If you are going to be an effective leader, you must be deliberate in keeping your team informed. If you don’t, you will create a tremendous amount of “sideways energy” as people speculate and come to the wrong conclusion.
Click to Listen
You can keep your team aligned in the midst of significant organizational change—or crisis—by taking these six steps:
Determine what you want to communicate.
Commit the message to writing.
Secure alignment with your leadership team.
Contact influential stakeholders—personally.
Announce the change through available media channels.
Make yourself available to answer questions.
Listener Questions
Steve asked, “What do you do when you are blind-sided by a customer with news about your company that turns out to be true?”
Jeni asked, “Do you think the communications strategy you outlined in a recent blog post applies to churches and other non-profits as well?”
Brad asked, “I understand the communications strategy when it comes to public announcements, but what about information that is more sensitive, like why you terminated someone?”
Maria asked, “We just don’t have time in our company to communicate as well as we would like. With the continued tough economy, we have fewer people trying to do the same work. What do you suggest? How can we find time to communicate in this context?”
Special Announcements
Registration is now open for the Launch Conference, April 7-10 at the beautiful Hilton Orlando Lake Buena Vista, located in the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida. Early Bird Registration ends on February 14th. BUT, you can take an additional $200 off the early bird pricing by using the code “HYATT.”
Episode Resources
In this episode I mentioned several resources, including:
Conference: The Launch Conference
Post: How Do Leaders Create Alignment?
Screencast: How to Launch a Self-Hosted WordPress Blog in 20 Minutes or LessDownload: My Ideal Week (PDF)
Software: Evernote
Software: Google Alerts
Software: Mention
Software: Nozbe
Show Transcript
You can download a complete, word-for-word transcript of this episode here, courtesy of Ginger Schell, a professional transcriptionist,