When it comes to introducing a team or organizational change of consequence, the best leaders make sure to give team members the ability to help craft it. People place a great deal more value on what they help to create then they do changes imposed upon them. As any leader can tell you, when people value the change, they get behind it and drive it toward a successful transformation.
Getting people to change is more complex than that. I was inspired by what Randall shared with Ryan Holiday during their interview for Ryan's Daily Stoic Leadership Challenge. Enough so, that I wrote it down: 1) Spend time listening to people and try to understand what is working/not working. Nobody wants to change until they feel they've been heard. 2) Once people feel heard, the next step is to share a vision that people can buy into and get behind. 3) Next comes choosing the people who will be part of the go forward team and those who will not. 4) Once you have a team in place, get together and make a conscious choice to commit to the vision. Publicly agree that we are in this together and that we're going to do it.
Getting people to change is more complex than that. I was inspired by what Randall shared with Ryan Holiday during their interview for Ryan's Daily Stoic Leadership Challenge. Enough so, that I wrote it down: 1) Spend time listening to people and try to understand what is working/not working. Nobody wants to change until they feel they've been heard. 2) Once people feel heard, the next step is to share a vision that people can buy into and get behind. 3) Next comes choosing the people who will be part of the go forward team and those who will not. 4) Once you have a team in place, get together and make a conscious choice to commit to the vision. Publicly agree that we are in this together and that we're going to do it.