How to Announce and Manage Change as a Leader

Managing change and transitions is an essential yet often overlooked aspect of leading a team.

Are you managing change effectively? Announcing and managing change while keeping your team motivated is more complex than most new leaders expect. Whether managing organizational or structural changes, responsibility changes, or priority changes on the team, it’s an ongoing effort to manage change and manage a team of personalities and perspectives.

Though change can often be a good thing like announcing a promotion, change at work is more often perceived as a bad thing if it upsets the norm or what is expected to happen. People largely prefer normalcy and predictability at work. As a leader of a team, announcing and managing change can feel like navigating your ship in a storm. You never know exactly how each person on the team will react to the change at a given time or the full scope of impacts beyond the change itself.

To successfully get to the other side of a transition, large or small, you need a strategy and an approach. Managing different personalities on a team and considering the impacts of change is important for successfully transitioning through change without having the team fall apart in the process.

Now, with the importance of managing change in mind, here are 7 best practices…