Your business doesn’t stop for change.

A project can take months, quarters or longer to finish.

Culture change will take years.

Daily operations don’t wait. Can’t wait.

Even in a pandemic.

Execution happens every day. Results are expected always. The operational work doesn’t stand still. Neither does the desire to grow or improve.

In tight fiscal environments, it’s important to find ways to drive your change while allowing the space for people to continue to be able to execute their ‘today’ goals, until ‘tomorrow’ gets here.

If budgets aren’t opening much, it’s a bit of a catch-22.

As you look ahead to the new year and the new initiatives on the horizon, take time now to get a lay of the land.

How are your people doing, right now?

Do they have what they need to do what’s being asked?

Are you providing them with the resources and support they need?

If not, start doing what you must, now, to strengthen the foundation around them.

We have a tendency to keep asking more from our existing teams but a manager’s job is to ensure that people have what they need to succeed.

Otherwise, it won’t be sustainable and cracks will show everywhere.

Find ways to help them now, before you pile on new things and ask even more of them in January.

Have a great week!