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YC Lian 🇲🇾🇸🇬's avatar

> It’s common to find people only raising issues that require a change reactively as the issue comes up.

So true!

Thanks for sharing. I have a blunt question: while people were aligned under the same vision or self organized through reteaming, what happened to some priority that wasn't included or supported, but strongly felt by one or very few individuals? I suppose they understood their ultimate role as a leader or some chose to leave.

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Daniel Walters's avatar

Part of the work was getting into each area of the organisation and working with experienced people in those areas to understand what they thought was important.

We'd capture that in various ways, trying to relate activities to problems, needs, capabilities and outcomes. This often identified important work that we'd otherwise be unaware of.

We might not have been able to prioritise everything at once but recognising and acknowledging needs and helping make timely and clear prioritisation decisions goes a long way.

Still trust takes time to build and certainly people left before trust was established. And sometimes we made missteps where trust was lost. Most important is you are open to learning and improving. You don't start with perfect knowledge.

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