Getting started
When it comes to changing culture most teams don’t lack the ideas required to do so, they lack the determination to take action. This is often a result of the fact that there are simply too many things to attend to or else the items chosen require too many hours to complete.
This is why, whenever I run workshops, I always get teams to select no more than 3 things to focus on and from this short list they pick one thing they can immediately do. Not ‘one thing to investigate and plan’, but one thing that can be done now.
When that one thing has been done, change feels easier to achieve, the success is celebrated and we move to quickly select another achievable action then repeat the process. Sometimes this happens on the day itself!
Change is only possible when you stop creating a long list of things to do and get started.
