Know your Business Aura | Strategic Factors Impacting Change

As a Leader you need to feel the aura of your organization in order to modify or acknowledge the type of atmosphere you are managing.

As we re-establish our businesses we have spoken and shared about the evolutionary steps everyone will endure as they reassemble their teams (Form, Storm, Norm, Perform), but now I also want you to get that sense of your aura as outlined in the right hand column of the diagram below. Got it?

Making change happen successfully requires the ability to understand the big picture while implementing small incremental attributes of change. So how do we take the big picture and make it easily understood by everyone in the organization? Before an enterprise can embark on a journey of change, it needs to do a cultural inventory to insure that the enterprise will be able to embrace change successfully. There are some strategic key factors to consider when embarking on a journey of change. These are important factors but do not necessarily need to reside within your enterprise as long as you have identified a resource that you can readily access for help. If one of the factors is either missing or not understood then the resulting attitude could invade your enterprise. The following chart indicates the inevitable result when a single factor is missed.

Let’s look at the factors in greater detail

Vision … every individual and enterprise has a vision. In some cases it has never been articulated so that everyone understands what it is, but without a clear vision, it is impossible to predict the end result.

Skills … do you have access to the skills required either internally or externally to insure that your vision will become reality.

Incentives … so why are we changing? It could be survival or to be the best in class. You may be a local enterprise but you need to think globally since your competitor is just a mouse click away. Each participant must understand and embrace the reasons why change is needed.

Resources … what resources are required to make sure that the vision will become a reality and where do we access them readily when needed?

Action Plan … where do we start, when do we start and how are we going to get it done. This roadmap is critical to implementing change.

Now let us go to the next level of managing change … they normally will revolve around one of the three following pillars

Let’s look at the factors in greater detail.

Vision … every individual and enterprise has a vision. In some cases it has never been articulated so that everyone understands what it is, but without a clear vision, it is impossible to predict the end result.