Now what?

Set regular checkups to:

• Celebrate and monitor progress
• Reflect on learning and insights
• Honor and understand failures

Decide what the next milestone is and who is doing what by when.

• Revisit the team’s purpose statement and explore the following questions:
• Does our team purpose still resonate?
  Does it need any tweaking?
• How has the world (or company, or function) changed?
• Do we need to pivot, shift, or evolve our focus or direction?

Now that you have landed your purpose as a team and created a game plan of the work that only you can do.

What mindset, skills, and upgrades need to be addressed in the coming months?

How will you engage others who were not part of this work that this work will impact?

Remember, follow through is queen.

Follow through will be essential. You also must be clear on who the team needs to be at this moment in order to deliver on their purpose.

Given that purpose statements create tensions (as referenced in the previous chapter) part of the tensions now include raising the bar for this team’s performance. 

There is no going back; you can’t unscramble eggs!

All this means:

The team is required to elevate who they are, how they work collectively with the newfound clarity of shared accountability, and how they lead their own team.

What has changed?

The team is leveling up and doing more strategic work.¹⁶ This takes time, and requires the team to let go of certain tasks and delegate¹⁷ more in order to free themselves up to do the work that only they can do.

Change Requires

• Honoring of the past
• Clarity of future
• Understanding your own purpose¹⁸ so you can connect the dots

Bring Purpose Alive

This is just the beginning. Now that you have your team’s purpose-driven plan, well done!

Celebrate all that you have accomplished or will be creating!

“We shall not cease from exploration,
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.”

— T. S. Eliot