Coaching Your IT Team for Change: 9 Tips
CIO, Thursday, May 2nd, 2024
Getting your team to accept, and even embrace, change is vital for IT success. IT leaders who have mastered the art of leading through change share their advice on this essential leadership skill.
When a necessary change hits your IT team, getting everyone to buy in and adapt is key - and challenging. Some team members will, by nature, fight any change. Even those once adaptable may have become change resistant due to years of near-constant turbulence. One Gartner study found that willingness to support organizational change dropped from 74% of employees in 2016 to just 43% in 2022.
'You can have the best solution but if you don't have adoption, it will fail,' says Wayne Tung, managing director of Sendero Consulting. 'This is true of mergers, acquisitions, divestitures - any type of change.'