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Build the guiding team

4 important questions on Build the guiding team

What is the common problem of step 2 build the guiding team?

Those who should be driving change are not doing their job, and nobody wants to confront the issue

Which two characteristics has a powerful guiding team?

1. It's made up of the right people, individuals with the appropriate skills, leadership capacity, organization credibility and connections to handle a specific kind of organizational change.

2. Demonstrates teamwork, key issue is trust

What works build the guiding team, help to form a group that has the capability in membership and method of operating- to guide a very difficult change proces?

1. Showing enthusiasm and commitment to help draw the right people into the group

2. Modeling the trust and teamwork needed in the group

3. Structuring meeting formats for the guiding team so as to minimize frustration and increase trust

4. Putting your energy into step 1 (raising urgency) if you cannot take on the step 2 challenge and if the right people will not

What does not work during step 2 build the guiding team?

1. Guiding change with weak task forces, single individuals, complex governance structures, or fragmented top teams

2. Not confronting the situation when momentum and entrenched power centers undermine the creation of the right group

3. Trying to leave out or work around the head of the unit to be changed because he or she is hopeless

The question on the page originate from the summary of the following study material:

The Heart of Change Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations | 9781422187333 | John P Kotter, et al

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