3 Tips to Re-Focus your team on the New Strategy

3 Tips to Re-Focus Your Team on the New Strategy

Most strategic change initiatives fail, or at least hit some major bumps along the road. It is really difficult to change behaviour. If your team is struggling to adapt to a new strategy, try these three things to get them back on track: Push decision-making down. If people are told to act differently, they feel like "doers" with little control or power. Let people make choices about how they will contribute to the new strategy. Ask for input. If your people are stuck, ask them to suggest ways to remove the barriers that are holding them back. Share successes. No one wants to change if they don't think the new strategy will succeed. Whenever you make progress, no matter how small, share it with your team as evidence that the new strategy works.

Today's Management Tip was adapted from "When Your Team Reverts to the Old Strategy" by Amy Gallo brought to you by Edwin van Wyk via Harvard Business Review.