Leadership + Cost Analysis

 

Psych & Such    |    27 May 2021

Today I was working with a leader who is grappling with difficult choices surrounding individual and team changes.  During our session they reported the following:

"I'm thinking about all of the changes that could happen.  And I keep coming back to this idea of, 'What are these shifts going to cost me? Going to cost the team?'"

Too often we are slow to make personal and professional changes because of the costs we are predicting to endure.  We are risk adverse: We forgo the potential and the promising for the comfortable and familiar.

I listened and responded with:

"You're right, there will be costs; however, what are the costs to you and the team if you remain the same?  On the flip side, what benefits might be awaiting you and the team if the changes happen?"

 There are costs and benefits to every decision, action, choice, and behavior.  Leaders are charged with being resolute in finding the times when the scales finally tip and "the way we've always done it" is no longer the way we will continue to do it.