Lessons in IT Transformation: Technology Expert to Business Leader

Helping Employees Feel Ownership

There is one minor problem with this approach to creating and implementing a vision. The only people who buy into it (if you are lucky!) are those who helped create it. For the rest of the organization, this is simply another edict being foisted onto them by the bigwigs. They have no personal connection to this vision, no emotional attachment to it, and no reason to buy into it on a visceral level. This is simply one more thing taking them away from being productive and getting their jobs done. What is missing here is a sense of ownership. No one has taken the time and effort to engage the people in the process of developing the vision. There is no personal buy-in. People don't understand how or why they should connect to the vision and what it means to them on a day-in, day-out basis. Bottom line, there is no sense of ownership on a personal level for making the vision a reality.