Adapting To The Change Challenge

Leaders know all too well that we face constant change. Leaders must adapt quickly to different situations to remain competitive, meet financial goals, launch new services and products, and the list goes on and on. The key is how to adapt to meet the change challenges.

Managing a Remote Team

Although organizations have become more flexible in terms of their working policies over recent years, for many the widespread shift to remote working has been surprising.

Many managers weren’t prepared for this acceleration, having received little to no training in how to effectively manage a remote team.

As many are realizing, managing a remote team is very different to managing a face-to-face team, with a need to adapt working processes and leadership techniques to see successes.?

Building Trust

To tackle this challenge, study, analyze, and deploy some of the best?strategies line managers can use for maintaining and building trust in remote teams .

Trust is an essential building block of talent. Trust ensures employees take responsibility for their own work and their own outcomes, boosting accountability and developing strong, resilient talent that can adapt to change.?

Navigating Widespread Disruption

Today’s leaders are trying to navigate widespread disruption across practically every aspect of business operations These include remote working, the use of artificial intelligence, adapting attitudes, new technologies, and a shift from designing processes for efficiency to designing for resilience. Understanding these challenges is key to overcoming them, and overcoming them is key to getting your team members on board with those changes

Shifting from ‘Business’ to ‘People’

An IBM Institute for Business Value study, titled ‘COVID-19 and the Future of Business’, concludes that ‘placing a?renewed focus on people ?is more important than ever in a world of work where many employees are working outside of traditional offices and dealing with heightened personal stress and uncertainty’.

Taking a people-centric approach could significantly help to boost satisfaction, motivation, and productivity even at challenging times, ensuring your team performs to the best of their ability.

Driving Team Collaboration

Collaboration between team members happens naturally - organically - within the workplace. When people work together, there are almost unlimited opportunities to interact. In remote settings, however, it’s something that actively needs to be facilitated. As a leader, it’s important that you work to build positive?remote work collaboration habits for your teams ?that make it easy and natural for people to work together and collaborate, even if they are not working from the same location.

Failure to Communicate

Effective communication is so hard because it takes commitment. You have to make effective communication a priority and that takes discipline, consistency, clarity of message, and a willingness to keep at it day after day.

By putting a structured communication system in place that connects at the right level with all of your stakeholders, you can dramatically improve your effectiveness as a leader and drive faster top- and bottom-line growth.

Be the leader people want to follow.

Richard Grehalva

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