Standing Up Teams Amid Strategy Shifts
A roundtable at SFELC Annual 2025 on forming teams quickly during pivots, balancing KTLO with new initiatives, and keeping people energized through change.
Change is inevitable, but how leaders respond determines whether teams thrive or stumble. Market pivots, new technologies, and shifting customer needs often require standing up new teams quickly — all while ensuring existing ones stay focused and effective.
This roundtable at SFELC Annual 2025 dug into the realities of making tough organizational decisions, balancing limited resources, and defining crisp charters for new teams without losing sight of the critical work that keeps the business running.
Topics covered:
- Getting alignment on the why with leadership before moving
- Spinning up teams fast — mission first or people first?
- Balancing KTLO and new initiatives, and the metrics that guide those tradeoffs
- Writing a team charter that doesn’t become shelfware
- Maintaining morale when focus shifts to something new
- Measuring the first 30/60/90 days and adjusting early
- Making tough calls — sunsetting features, reductions — and bringing the team through them