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Episode 75 - Change Management Summary

In this episode, Scott and Mo discuss change management and its importance in the workplace. They highlight the need for leaders to encounter challenges, build resilience, and foster open communication. They emphasize the importance of recognizing opportunities and engaging employees in the change process. The hosts also encourage leaders to be proactive and continuously evaluate and refine their approach to change management. They conclude by emphasizing the need for leaders to be open to change and drive positive change within their organizations.

1. Focus on encountering challenges. 

• Change can disrupt the status quo 
• Change can create resistance among employees. 
  • If you're not encountering challenges, then you're not leading. 
• Look for the unexpected
• Get out in front of challenges and be ready to work them out
• Resilience
  • What is going on in your company?
  • How can you work amidst those challenges? 
  • How can you build that resilience within your team that is going to be vital for navigating change effectively? 
• Be adaptable.
  • Are you ready to adapt quickly to change? 
  • Are you ready to bounce back from the setbacks? 

BOOK: The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organization, by Kouzes and Posner. 

“The only way you're going to get good is to get good”. 

• Don't baby your people. 
• Build resiliency in your team. 
• Leaders think challenges are opportunities.
• Foster open communication. 
  • Open up - Be honest
  • Allow team members to express within the team and to one another their concerns. 
  • Be part of expressing those concerns 
• Change presents opportunities for innovation and for growth. 

How do you recognize opportunities? 

• Focused on the things that can be used as a learning moment or a teaching moment. 

2. Focus on Engaging Employees.

• The “Buy-in” - John Maxwell's The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership
• To be an effective leader, you need to create a buy-in of ownership for your people. 
  • Empower team members 
    • To contribute ideas
    • Give those solutions 
    • Foster a sense of ownership
    • Create commitment

BOOK: Made in America, by Sam Walton

3. Encourage Pro-activists 

• Your people are only going to be proactive if you allow them to be proactive. 
• Continuous evaluation and refinement of our approach to change is going to ensure ongoing success. 

QUESTIONS: 

• What are the things that are worth evaluating in your business? 
• What are your feedback mechanisms? 
• Are you giving your people a way to tell you the things that are going good and bad?
• Do you have an open door policy? 
• Are you making it better in your workplace? 

MO’s Final Thoughts:

You need to be the most open person in the room when it comes to change management. It is so easy for us as leaders to tell other people that they need to be open to change. When in reality, leaders, it's really us that's not open to change. Don't get upset with your people. Help them and redirect them to where they're supposed to be. Change is what you need to be about. Leaders are all about change. 

As we talk about encountering challenges, engaging employees, encouraging proactiveness, you know, who's in charge of all that? You are in charge of that as the leader. You're the person who is responsible both for the productivity of your company and specifically for your team. So leaders, remember, it's about embracing opportunity because that's going to bring you to growth and innovation and your people are going to jump onto that process. And when it comes to leadership, you are the one that drives those processes.Give your people the best opportunity to succeed. The way you do that  is to get in front and be ready to deal with that change management.

Amazon Book Link:

The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organization, Kouzes and Posner - https://a.co/d/aO2WW5M 

21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, John Maxwell - https://a.co/d/72MPij0 

Made in America, Sam Walton - https://a.co/d/aUgPpSs 

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