Conferences
Leadership
Breakout Session #1
1:10 PM
Creating a Culture of Change
My first breakout session today was called creating a culture of Change. Cara Mertens and Julie Pierce were facilitating the session and they did a great job giving some practical and easy ways to keep Change easy and smooth. The basis of being in a Culture of Change is that we live and breath in a culture that is always changing and if we want to have the influence to be heard we have to constantly be changing. The hard part about that is that it can be extremely difficult for you team especially if not communicated and facilitated in the right way.
They broke their session down into 4 easy categories. Here they are!
Communication
Be careful how you communicate at all times. If you are careful you can create a divide just in the language you use. There can be I, we, and they all intermingled. It has to all be I. If a team is all on the same page professionally and relationally when it comes time to move or change the transition is easier.
Environment
Where you meet and what you have in your meeting space says a lot to the team subconsciously. Is the environment promoting stagnation or movement. There is so many things that you convey to your team without even trying you have to be intentional about it all the time.
Experimentation
At our core God made us to Risk. Take things and experiment with them. Don’t be afraid to try and don’t be afraid to let you team try. If the fail walk them through the experience so they will be able to succeed next time. Don’t stifle what they doing or they will grow stagnant.
Urgency
We need to go at things with a Jack Bauer intensity. Jack is the king of doing what only he can do. (which is save the world and kill everything) If you watch Jack he delegates and does what only he can do, but he is urgent. What we are apart of the greatest mission there is. There is none more important. Especially in our eyes. We have to be urgent in what we are trying to accomplish.
Great breakout!
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