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    LEADERSHIP TEAMS

    Teams maintain momentum with early wins

    By Jody Spiro and Daniel Reyes-Guerra
    Categories: Change management, Collaboration, Leadership
    April 2024
    The last Leadership Teams column, “Strong teams start with collective vision and early wins,” described how it is helpful for teams to see early progress toward achievement of the members’ vision. Early wins should be tangible, observable, evidence-based, and accomplished in just a few weeks. This helps create and maintain momentum. They should be a part of the set of milestones that are identified at the beginning of every change process and are an important component that creates and maintains momentum or accelerates progression. We now dive deeper into early wins, with examples from teams in Gwinnett County, Georgia, and Broward County, Florida. As these examples show, an effective early win is the bridge between the shared vision and achievement of that vision and often

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    Spiro, J. (2018). Leading change handbook: Concepts and tools. The Wallace Foundation.


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    Jody Spiro (jodyspiro50@gmail.com) is a professor and author in education leadership and systems change and a senior advisor to Learning Forward.

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    Daniel Reyes-Guerra (dreyes@fau.edu) is associate professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Research Methodology, program coordinator in the School Leaders Program, and project director and primary investigator of the Principal Preparation Initiative at Florida Atlantic University.


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