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132: Why Your Ops Team Goes Flat After a Transition—and What to Do Next
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Find the full transcript at YourFutureRealized.com/132.
She thought, “Wow, the transition went much better than last time.” Roles shifted. Timelines complete. No one asking, “Wait, who owns this now?”
A week later, everything was just… still. Nothing blew up, no one quit. Everything was moving forward, but something was different. The team’s energy had gone from tense to… kind of flat. Waiting in that limbo where the old plan is done and the new one hasn’t quite landed.
And that’s when she got nervous, because it didn’t feel like progress anymore. Just, disturbingly quiet.
It’s something we don’t always pay a lot of attention to: That time right after a big change, when everyone is absorbing it and figuring out the new normal.
In this episode I’ll share the simple experiment this exec tried in that confusing little phase to uncover what was really going on.