Lead Your Team Through Change with 3 Powerful Strategies
Meridith Elliott Powell, CSP, CPAE
Business Motivational Speaker, Award-Winning Author, Business Strategist
Yes, someone has to do it, so it might as well be you. Are you ready to be a leader who can successfully lead your team through change?
Honestly, in today’s marketplace, the leader who can not only influence their team to change, but inspire, motivate, and engage them will be the leader who wins. The one who not only achieves their goals, but surpasses them.
According to Accenture , in the last four years, the rate of change has increased a whopping 183% and 33% in the last year alone. And this pace of change shows no signs of slowing down. If you are in leadership today, you need to be good, really good, at leading your team through change.
Why Is It So Hard to Lead Your Team Through Change?
There are so many reasons why leading your team through change is difficult. Some of the most common include:
Again, the list goes on, but that is a pretty good argument of why it is more than challenging to successfully lead your team through change.
But still, change is here to stay, and as a leader your focus has got to be not only getting your team to accept change but engage in it and drive it.
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So where do you start?
Here Are 3 Powerful Strategies to Lead Your Team Through Change
Get Them in Shape
That’s right, if you want your team to embrace change then get them conditioned for change, used to change. Talk about change, and get them to talk about change. Hold brainstorming sessions to get them thinking about and discussing what changes are coming, and what that could mean for them and the organization. By getting them in shape, you can challenge them to see change as a positive and something they can predict. The more they predict change, the more they will be comfortable with change, the more they will feel a level of control.
Show Them, Don't Tell Them
You know as a leader, the best way to lead is by example. If you want the team to change, then you go first. Show them what change looks like, how to do it, how to be successful with it. Your team will move much more easily to change by seeing your actions then by following your words.
Give Them a Voice
And last but not least, you need to give them some say in the change. I think people hate change because they feel like it is DONE to them, rather than something they participate in. What has to change is inevitable, but how you execute that change can be something you engage the team in deciding. People support what they help create.
Yes, getting people to embrace change is never easy, but it is rewarding. Going through change is difficult, and it is because of that that your team needs you, as the leader, to help them more than ever to navigate it successfully.
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3 个月A very thorough, great overview of how management, and, change working together, can help to give the needed voice in making staff feel more comfortable as communication is definitely a key factor, less fearful, more motivated to do the needed tasks, plus more innovated whether the idea sticks or not. Unfortunately, this is the risk of what happens in change developments. Thank you for sharing.
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3 个月Great read!
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3 个月Thanks for sharing
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3 个月this is a powerful set up numbers. You're spot on on the need for us to all step up and lead. We have to see leadership as being a vacuum... it will get filled with something, it's our objective to ensure it's filled with the right leadership. Thanks
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