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Introducing changes — random thoughts
For me, one of the leader’s main tasks is to introduce changes. They’re moving us and our people to a higher level. Especially now, during covid times, it’s an amazing challenge to make the right choices and adapt to the current situation.
Some time ago we switched to a distributed work model. Which means that every person is working from home. During that time, One of my colleagues came with a brilliant idea to improve our knowledge sharing. The first reason is rather obvious, when we worked from our homes our communication was limited. However, it was also important because we were working on something completely new and we wanted to avoid building knowledge silos.
While I was mentoring and helping to introduce this change it was an interesting opportunity to think about the process itself. Below I’ve summed up the most important things that we discussed and learned from each other.
- Understand the change you want to introduce
Before discussing any changes with others think about why you need it and what’s even more critical, why others need it. It’s not an easy task to convince other people to start doing something new. The reasons (or goals) are important because there is no point in doing something for the sake of doing it. For instance, when we’re struggling with knowledge silos the change shouldn’t be about “let’s share…
