Helping Things Go Right: Rooting Change In Your Mission, Vision, and Values

I spent the last three posts* talking about barriers to success in change management.  Those are important. However, the single most important thing to successful change is making sure that any change that you are making within your organization ties back to your mission, vision, and values. If it’s not connected, it’s not worth your time and energy. You have plenty of mission-aligned things on your plate to deal with - you don’t need more.

Mission-aligned change helps move the conversation out of personal preference and feelings to what is best for the impact or mission of the organization.

Mission-aligned changes ensure you focus on what is important and help you let go of all the rest.

So as you engage or entertain any kind of change, the first questions to ask are: 

• In what ways will this help us get closer to our vision or move our mission forward?

• Where are our values aligned with such a change?

*Be sure to check out the full series: Three Reasons Your Change Project Isn’t Going Like You Thought It Would Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.