Reorgs Happen

Slides from NYC CTO Summit, Fall 2015

Transcript

1. Reorgs Happen Dealing Elegantly with Organizational Change! ! Camille Fournier @skamille
2. Reorgs
3. In less than 4 years, I experienced* 3 significant reorgs! *survived!
4. Successful Companies Change As Needed!
5. As a Leader, How Can You Deal?
6. http://intenseminimalism.com/2015/a-framework-for-thinking-about-systems-change/!
7. Vision: Why Are We Doing This?! Lacking Vision, we have CONFUSION
8. Skills: Do We Know How To Do What Needs To Be Done?! Without Skills, You have Anxiety
9. Incentives: Why Should People Play Along?! Without Incentives, you get Resistance
10. Resources: Do we have the time, energy, people to make this work?! Without Resources, we have Frustration
11. Action Plan: How will we go about doing this?! Without an Action Plan, we have False Starts
12. http://intenseminimalism.com/2015/a-framework-for-thinking-about-systems-change/!
13. YOUR ROLE
14. Understand and focus the Vision
15. Communicate the vision to your organization!
16. Advocate for the needs of your team!
17. Push Back on unrealistic expectations!
18. Create a Plan with Realistic Goals
19. Let Go
20. Case Study 1: The Straightforward and Simple!
21. Why are we doing this?! Element: Vision
22. Causes for Reorg   Ineffective communication structures!   Removing a product or focus area!   Adding a new product or focus area!   Change in team size or makeup!
23. Clear Communication Solves Many Evils!! Even when they’re on board, explaining the goals is key ! ! It is your job as the leadership to run this communication, having it trickle- down through management is usually a fail ! It Is ! ! ! ! ! ! Element: Skills
24. Case Study 2: A business-wide focus!
25. Advocate for your Team Make sure they have leadership roles and growth opportunities! Element: Incentives
26. Set reasonable expectations based on capacity! If you don’t have enough people for a team, say so! Element: Resources
27. Case Study 3: The never-ending planning!
28. A good plan requires setting clear goals Teams given the same goal will have turf wars Element: Action Plan
30. Let Go The only constant is change
31. You don’t have to do this alone
32. Vision + Skills + Incentives + Resources + Action Plan = SUCCESS!
33. Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose!
34. Thanks! @skamille