Rules for Team Change

1. Plan for change.
2. Involve others in the change process; get stakeholder agreement and
commitment.
3. Communicate, communicate, communicate.
4. Generate expectations of outcomes.
5. Create influence/support networks.
6.Obtain adequate resources.
7.Generate critical mass to create and maintain momentum.
8.Follow through and follow up.
9.Persist, and be ready to pay the price for change - mistakes.
10.Reinforce early and often.
11.Keep processes and techniques simple.
12.Lead the way (Robbins & Finley, 2000, pp. 181-182)."

Reference:  Robbins, H. & Finley, M., (2000).  The new why teams don't work:
what goes wrong and how to make it right.  San Francisco:  Berrett-Koehler
Publishers.