Reorgs Happen

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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
29. None

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