RUN WITH THE Big dogS™ newsletter
 Volume 3, issue 32

Are you trying to implement change without identifying the explicit ways each manager's behavior will change?...John

Management idea

Strategic planning is about change.  Every strategic planning meeting identifies the elements of today's status quo that have to change to realize the team's vision, mission, and strategy.  The challenge has always been how to get individual employees to relate to the corporate change required.

At the end of a planning meeting for one of our clients we went around the table and asked each of the 20 participating managers what they were going to do differently because of the new direction they created.  Each manager shared with the team three things they would stop doing and three new things would they start doing. These lists were published in the planning document as a reminder. Visible changes in the behavior of each manager is more effective in communicating a change in company direction than any memo or speech.