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Brief Before You Change.

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Should I tell my directs before I make changes?

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Mark, you said this more times than I can count on my hands. Never introduce a managerial change without first introducing that change.

If you're going to make a change to how you manage your team, it works far better to tell them what you're going to do in advance of doing it.

Right? I mean, that seems kind of obvious. I've gotten so many questions about this recently. I can't remember where I was. I mean I got some very serious

questions from people at a client site or maybe it was a public conference I don't

remember it had to be client site and several people came up and say you know I just I don't really want to do the

briefing and you know it never occurred to me that maybe they don't just they don't

like briefing they're not comfortable in front of their team but I generally don't

see that as a problem. I don't think most individual managers think

you know I can't get up in front of my team and for the record when we say briefing we

don't mean it has to be a formal half hour you stand up

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