team recent change

Change — a merger, a restructure, new people — quietly breaks the unspoken agreements a team runs on. The old ways of working together no longer fit. The new ways have not formed yet. So the team operates from memory, each person acting out of how things used to work.

That in-between is uncomfortable, and it is also the best possible moment to do real team work. The team is already in motion. Nothing has set yet.

Doing the work now means the team forms its new shared way of operating on purpose, instead of waiting a year to find out what it became by accident. 

“Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.”

— African proverb