If you’re feeling “reorg” fatigue, you’re not alone. In today’s constantly changing organizational landscape, it seems like the one thing you can count on is more internal change. Those curveballs WILL keep coming! To help you get ready, watch Bobbie LaPorte’s October 11 “Your Best Next Move” video and learn how to turn reorganization into an opportunity for your team.
Transcript of Your Best Next Move: How to Turn Reorganization Into Opportunity for My Team
Hi everyone, Bobbie LaPorte here again with my weekly tip for your Best Next Move – where I help you have more agency in your work, acknowledge your capacity to act and see what you can do right now.
This week I want to share with you a new “angle” on how to make changes in your organization an opportunity for your team.
Even though reorganizations and internal changes seem to be happening much more frequently now, it still feels like we are never quite ready.
In our research with tech executives, we found that “internal change” continues to be the biggest professional curveball they experience. And even thought you may feel that you are “reorg hearty” to a certain extent, it always feels unsettling to some degree. You might feel that you should be able to bounce right back – but it rarely happens that fast.
And increasingly, internal changes can be “messy” – just because of our environment of unrelenting uncertainty.
For example, if you are impacted by an internal change, it could be a temporary situation that may morph and change a few times before it finally settles…..only to likely change again before you can catch your breath.
Or it could be an acquisition that you expect means integration of some functions, but it turns that is not the case right away – and you end up supporting a group for an extended period of time instead of having them come under your org.
You can’t predict how these things will turn out with any certainty, but you can be sure that they will be messier than you expected or would like.
So how do you get yourself and your team “ready” to deal with internal change and not get stuck or derailed?
Here’s my tip:
- Make sure you have a clear understanding of your team’s skills, strengths and value to the organization. Don’t fall into the trap of having a fixed view of how they can contribute to a changing organizational landscape. This will enable you to get ahead of the curve – and ahead of your peers who are likely stuck and longing to keep living in the past.
- Use situations like this as a learning lab for you and your team. Consider the skills and latent talents that your team could deploy; how can they extend themselves while at the same time helping others come up to speed more quickly when change hits.
As the problems organizations face become more complex, solving them will require using the skills of others across the enterprise. You can’t just rely on what your team has done in the past.
By preparing your team for change, you are helping them build capacity to handle future change more effectively. Because the curveballs will keep coming.
As always, I want 2021 to be a year of momentum for you, one of possibility thinking that takes advantage of the agency we sometimes forget we have.
That’s my tip for this week. I’ll see you next week. Take care of yourselves.
Get more reorganization insights from Bobbie’s Leadership Curveballs, Blind Spots and Black Holes podcast “Advice for Tech Executives Facing Reorganization Curveballs.”
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