Leading People through Change

By: Dr Neil Miller Click author's name for more of his/her articles

You can only be a leader, if people follow you. For people to follow, they need to know where they need to go and what they need to do.

Strategic change needs to have a clear path for people to follow. The leader can provide overall direction, but people still need personal direction that they can consistently follow when the leader is not present.

People need to know how a change will affect them and how the tasks they are doing fit with other tasks. They need to be able to see the bigger picture (context) and the detail that applies to them.

Consequently strategic change tasks need to connect to the work people are doing to implement the change. This “Tasks - ToDo’s” connection is normally managed in an adhoc way by people communicating with each other (in meetings, phone calls, emails, instant messaging, etc) to pass relevant information back and forth.

Formally connecting tasks and ToDo’s provides an essential path between strategic change tasks and the work being done to implement the strategic change. This path also provides the means to pass progress and other information from people doing the work to senior leaders in close to real-time.

TASKey has developed a relatively simple means to set up and maintain the connections between strategic change and the people implementing the change. The method employs web and web mobile software to maintain critical connections and to keep ToDo’s synchronized with the tasks required for strategic change.

With relevant connections in place, it is significantly easier for a leader to lead. The web software presents relevant strategic change information from the perspective of each implementer. So people have the information they need to follow and the leader receives relevant information about what is happening in real-time, so they can lead.

The web and web mobile software has been shown to be an effective means to lead people through change in a range of organizations from a large, diverse, dispersed national organisation to small businesses with people working in offices, from home and/or in the field.

By,
Dr Neil Miller
http://www.me2team.com

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About The Author: TASKey provides the most mobile, most flexible and most powerful web project management software to get projects done. Our web software makes it easy for everyone doing a project to work together to get the information they need to make the project a success. Visit www.me2team.com and www.taskey.com for more information