How do you bring individual teams through change and especially how do you have those difficult discussions with employees who are not onboard with the change? I get these types of questions often. Over the three decades of my career I have provided the tools and strategies to do just that.
Take a look at these photos in this blog. These are photos from one of my workshops with one of my healthcare clients that is going through a merger and new identity. The training and planning committee provided fun morning and afternoon team building activities during my sessions. The idea that “we are all in this together” really comes to fruition when people fully participate in these types of activities together.
Organizations like this one are lucky to have a lot of long tenured employees with a deep passion for what they’ve accomplished and done to provide care for their communities, when they weren’t part of a large system. However, along with that also comes a resistance to change. Acknowledging the losses openly and sympathetically and providing training can soothe anxiety and get the organization and their employees through these types of changes in one piece.
