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Rules for Team Change

October 28, 2003

1. Plan for change.
2. Involve others in the change process; get stakeholder agreement and commitment.
3. Communicate, communicate, communicate.
4. Generate expectations of outcomes.
5. Create influence/support networks.
6. Obtain adequate resources.
7. Generate critical mass to create and maintain momentum.
8. Follow through and follow up.
9. Persist, and be ready to pay the price for change - mistakes.
10. Reinforce early and often.
11. Keep processes and techniques simple.
12. Lead the way (Robbins & Finley, 2000, pp. 181-182)."

Reference:  Robbins, H. & Finley, M., (2000).  The new why teams don't work: what goes wrong and how to make it right.  San Francisco:  Berrett-Koehler Publishers.

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The New Why Teams Don't Work is available on loan from the Ohio State University Leadership Center.  A complete listing of all the Leadership Center's resources is available on our website http://leadershipcenter.osu.edu/

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Created: 2008-12-22, Updated: 2009-01-08