Change Communications

Snowflakes are one of nature’s most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together. — V. M. Kelly

Here is what you can do to create a winning team:

1. Make sure the team has a challenging goal to achieve. (*)
2. Ensure all team members understand the goal and are committed to it. (*)
3. Provide the necessary training to master the needed skills.
4. Stay the course even when things are tough. Keep all eyes on the ball. (*)
5. Resolve conflict before it distracts people and splits the team.
6. Measure the team’s progress, and make the score known to all. (*)
7. Ask team members for their input and find out what they need to win. (*)
8. Encourage diversity of styles within a shared dedication to the goal. (*)
9. The coach is to motivate and guide, but not hold players’ hands.
10. Celebrate small wins along the way, until you achieve the big one. (*)

(c) Communication Ideas

(*) Points that an active communication strategy can contribute to. I recently experimented putting these points into practice in a project involving 170 people over 10 months in three different geographic locations.