Everyday Leadership Podcast

Elements of Change Part 5 - Flexibility 

Over the last week, we have discussed some elements that teams and leaders need to be mindful of as we navigate the new normal.

Keys to managing change: Purpose and Direction, Capacity, Development, Take Action and Flexibility.

Even the best-laid plans require flexibility to tweak and adapt as situations keep changing.  

During the last 18 months+ teams have had to adapt to the ever-changing rules, policies, laws, lock-downs, stay-at-home orders, vaccine passports, etc...

Maintaining a sense of flexibility is crucial to be able to build a culture that outperforms.

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Elements of Change Part 4 - Take Action

Action creates action. Even imperfect action builds momentum within your team. It helps the team to see that change is possible and achievable. 

Taking action is a piece, although a big piece to making sure your team is ready to handle change.  

Foster the mindset of action in your teams. 

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Developing your team and preparing for change is key to be able to pivot or implement change quickly and effectively.

Most leaders are not ready or trained to handle change.  It is easier to be a great leader during boom times, but being a great leader during times of economic turmoil is very hard. 

Is your Senior Leadership Group ready to handle change?

If your organization had to pivot or implement change over the past 2 years, how would you rate the plan to implement change at your organization?

Elements of Change Part 2. 

Capacity to change.  Is your organization able to execute a change strategy, quickly and efficiently?

As leaders, we can sit and brainstorm in meetings and come up with ideas and thoughts where we can take the company.  

But, do you understand where your team and your people stand, in order to execute the change that is being asked.  

Elements of Change Part 1.

In this 5 part series, we will look at what is needed to handle change management within your team. 

Change is as much part of life as it is in business. Change has been, it is, and will be.

Purpose and Direction are two critical elements to your organization's ability to handle change.

How has your company handled change over the last 2 years?

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Seth Godin wrote a blog post titled Respecting Their Time that provides the food for thought for this episode.   

How can meetings and overall communication be improved to respect our teams? 

"We’re not just respecting people’s time. We’re respecting their voice and their passion." Seth Godin

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If you work remotely and you never really met any other employees, did you really work there? 

With the proliferation of work from home and work from anywhere opportunities, building relationships and loyalty have become a challenge.

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The nature of meetings is always evolving. While some teams are #RTO, some teams will remain #WFH.  In this new normal, what are the best practices around making meetings more effective and profitable for all participants?  

Useful suggestions to have outstanding meetings.

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Customer centricity - what does it mean? As a leader what does it mean to be customer-centric?

Is customer centricity listening to the customer and only for sales and customer service teams? 

This episode is a follow-up to yesterday's episode Build A Culture of Innovation.

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According to J.K. Rowling, It is impossible to live without failing at something unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default.

Let's encourage innovation and trying new ideas. Encouraging and trying new ideas lays out the foundation for building a team and a culture that believes in continuous improvement. As we miss the goalposts, we can recenter and try another time and do it again and again... as a team!

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