Highly-effective Steering Teams. Tips for setting them up and keeping them on track

Not every Steering Team is effective is its role to guide and facilitate the organization through the rigors and towards the rewards of restructuring. To be effective, the first step is to establish a solid platform of appropriate membership, unwavering commitment and clear expectations. The second step is to put in place a process to promote cultural transition and sound decision-making. This process entails role modeling desirable behaviors, spreading a vision of the future, defining performance improvement priorities, establishing an advantageous roll-out plan and--perhaps most importantly--supporting the "owners" of change through boundaries and bogies. Are you setting up a new Steering Team? Is a Steering Team already in place but you want to identify any areas for enhanced effectiveness? Either way, pursuing this platform and process may not avoid or solve all of your problems...but it can go a long way to helping your Steering Team help the rest of the organization through the uncertainties and anxieties of change.