Change

When No One is Looking

For those setting resolutions, goals choosing a word accepting a challenge, consider the following:

What am I doing that I’d want the film crew to see?

What are the things I’m doing that I don’t want the film crew to see?

The biggest generator of long-term results is learning to do things when you don't feel like doing them (when no one is looking).

Changing Culture

The conversation about the need for organizations to change their culture is not new.  For a change in culture to take place there must be three elements present - opportunity, standards and performance.

 Opportunity:  to change organizational culture there must be an opportunity for change.  While this may seem obvious the difficulty, it gaining agreement that an opportunity does exist.  One of the most significant reasons why organizations don't change is that leaders fail to recognize opportunities for change.  

Standards:  to change culture, operational standards, (norms if you will) must be redefined.  Standards must be redefined bring about change.  Old standards must be replaced with ones that reflect a new culture.  In essence the old rules no longer apply and new rules must be implemented.

 Performance:  Beyond missed opportunity, personnel performance can block culture change.  Performance is defined as behavior and accomplishments.  For cultural change to take place, behavior and accomplishments of people must change.  Organizational structures can be changes, people reassigned responsibilities, but if existing behaviors and accomplishments are not changed then organizations do not change.  

Intentions are not good enough. Organizational cultural change does not occur unless leaders facilitate the change.  

No Return ot Normal

"The sprint is turning into a marathon. As a result, organizations that continue to encourage false hopes that they will get back to 'normal' now find they have tired teams on their hands, tumbling employee engagement scores, and a general lack of faith in timeframes.

Instead of instilling the artificial belief that life will get back to the way it was, these leaders confront the sour reality that working may never be 'normal' again. They focus instead on developing individual, team and organizational resilience, and then hunt for opportunities to elevate their performance.

Here are three ways to focus such an approach:

Confront Reality

Develop Resilence

Becaome a 'learn-it-all', not a 'know-it-all'

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