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How to Survive Change and Bring Your Team Along for the Ride

Making changes in your business is easy. Getting your team to accept them is the hard part. Here’s how to navigate it without losing momentum.

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Logan Robison
February 18, 2025

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How to Survive Change and Bring Your Team Along for the Ride

Business growth isn’t just about more revenue. It is about breaking old systems and building new ones. And that is messy.

The past two weeks, I made some big shifts in my business.


✔ Switched payroll from manual to automated. Now it takes two days longer. Cleaners aren’t happy.
✔ Hired two VAs to handle questions through Slack instead of me responding directly. Cleaners aren’t happy.

From my perspective, these changes were necessary. No way I’m manually running payroll or fielding every question if I want to 3x this year. But from my team’s perspective, they see slower paychecks and less access to quick answers.

That is the tension of change. What feels like a win for the business can feel like a loss for the people inside it.

So how do you bring your team along when making changes?

  1. Over-communicate. When you make a change, don’t just announce it. Explain why and how it benefits them in the long run. If I had framed payroll automation as making paydays more predictable instead of “this takes two days longer now,” the reaction might have been different.

  2. Document everything. Every time someone asks a question, write it down. Keep a shared document with policies, FAQs, and solutions. The more you document, the fewer fires you put out.

  3. Show empathy, then push through. Change is uncomfortable. Acknowledge the pain points, but don’t backtrack. Teams resist what is unfamiliar, not what is bad. Give it time.

Growth isn’t just about what you build. It is about who you bring with you. Make the right calls, communicate them well, and trust that your team will adjust.

And in the meantime, you keep plugging along knowing that it won’t be perfect but it will be worth it!

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Until next time,

Logan