Play of the month: Lead your team through change with confidence

[Kristen Roth]

We know that change is inevitable. And managing the adoption of it? Well... that can be the most tricky part!

                                                         

Whether you're moving over to a different system, adding a new tool to your stack, or modifying an established team process, a Change Management Kick-off will reduce the disruption that any change is bound to cause. Running this Play will not only help to ensure a smooth rollout, but also align your team on the change’s value and purpose.

And while you might think this would only be beneficial for getting through the change itself, your Change Management Kick-off efforts will reap even more reward. An organizational psychologist reminds us that having a sound plan to organize change can yield lasting, positive results. Big changes can become cultural moments and even help teams identify possibilities for the future.

How do you and your team manage change? Do you always have a process in place or have you been known to wing it? Let's discuss below! 

[Sedera Randria]

Change management workshop...

[Kristen Roth]

Ohhh this gave me a little laugh as I sat here shaking my head, @Sedera Randria

[Hakeem Olasupo]

Lol 😆😆

[Heydi Menéndez]

:) :D

[Omar Mohamed Fathi]

LOL

[Grigory Salnikov]

Nice material @Kristen Roth !

[Jeanie Hioki]

Managing change is difficult but we're always looking for ways to encourage flexibility. No process in place (yet) and having to "wing it" but won't give up yet!

[Pramodh M]

Hi @Kristen Roth 

This content in Community will surely boost our knowledge in understanding the way the tool works.

I have just enrolled in Atlassian Team Playbook facilitation and getting to know about the Team Playbook.

Hope to see more discussions in future onTeam playbook from my side as well.

Thanks,
Pramodh

[Gaurav]

As much as we say that 'Change is inevitable, I have seen organizations having no defined process. But, most have the intent to define it and have helped a few take the hard decisions for implementing the same.

[James Richards]

Just ensure no one is left behind. Change is difficult for those comfortable with the status quo.

[Srinatha T]

Change is the only constant. ! This takes an enormous amount of time to adjust the only way out is discussing this and letting team decide the best approach. 

[Wouter Bruinings]

The first Principe of change management according to the organisational psychologist:

You can’t please everyone.

Should also be the first principle of a product owner :D.

[Connor]

Bookmarking this to use with my team later.

[Craig Nodwell]

Love this!
I've been a instrument of change my whole career, this is indeed helpful.
Thanks

[Shivam Desai]

I think to provide more relativity to this point. We can initiate the explanation by treating the client's requirement as our own product. 

[Kai Becker]

Just stumbled upon this. Really interesting. Thanks!

[Dan Breyen]

Buy in is important.  Giving some points as to why this needs to change, and how it will help addresses some concerns about "Here we go again, just changing for changing sake".  When people know why something is changing, it can ease some fears of the change.

[Dan Breyen]

Buy in is important.  Giving some points as to why this needs to change, and how it will help addresses some concerns about "Here we go again, just changing for changing sake".  When people know why something is changing, it can ease some fears of the change.

[Josh Shepherd]

Well everything seems to happen in cycles, so if we just ignore change, perhaps it will cycle around and the old way will be new again and we are good to go... Or not. 

Change makes life exciting - I like having brainstorming sessions where we really dig into new changes and with multiple viewpoints, try and really understand the ramifications behind the change. I personally feel once you understand the change, it's not quite so scarey.

[Shawn Doyle - ReleaseTEAM]

Change is going to happen whether we like it or not. so get in front of it and randomly change things and see what magically works!

[Laurie Sciutti]

Having a change management process is absolutely essential for any team/company and extends beyond software development changes.  I highly recommend this play to help socialize the process for your user community.  It's a good idea to revisit this periodically to enforce those processes.