BECOM 690 Feedback on September 27-October 4
Channel: James Ward
Date: 2015-10-08

I comment on the following concepts.

1. Our business development, sales and marketing team has agreed that we MUST collaborate, and take the good and the bad suggestions from all levels, and work for a change that everyone agrees on.

2. Many on the planning team have been in denial that things can continue the way they are, and aren't sure how to face the uncertainty of doing something different.

3. Bottom up change

4. Unlearning past behaviors is an important aspect of this step.  Many folks have a way to do business, and they have been doing it for years.  They likely consider themselves experts in that way of doing business.  It's very difficult for this person to unlearn their behavior, and adapt to the change that the new CEO envisions.

5. Older workers thought that with the new change they would lose their jobs, and did not want to accept the change at first. However, once the new manager arrived and made a great impression, all of us stayed positive and motivated to do better, and it made us like our jobs, and be more involved with the company in every aspect.

6. Fears of change that people may feel and then finally accepting the change. Our original director had been at our location for a long time and he was loved by many of the workers, so when it was time for us to switch leadership there was a lot of fear.

7. Once we got past that fear and established some job tasks for individuals and worked with the president on changes that needed to be made instead of him just telling us by looking in from the outside everything worked out great.