You've gone from this:
10-metre (33 ft) high fountain of pāhoehoe lava, Hawaii, United States
To this:
Toes of a pāhoehoe advance across a road inKalapana on the east rift zone of Kīlauea Volcano in Hawaii, United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lava#Lava_domes
And while the latter still looks pretty interesting, intriguing, it is hard as a rock. It has reached another place away from where it started from. It looks different than before, but now it is stuck right where it is.
So what is the good news? This doesn't happen all at one time. You may lose some people. They may reach a stalemate where they simply can't or won't accommodate anymore. They have decided that they aren't excited about the direction you are taking, even though you have done everything right: nurtured, critiqued, praised, communicated the "why's", and so on. These people are going to stop right where they are in terms of progress and they may show up everyday but they won't be passionate and they won't be invested. If these people are still functional for the purpose, be proud of how far they have come, remind them of that, and they may have come far enough to count. Others may decide at that point, that they don't share the end vision and they are ready to part ways.
Don't let this loss of momentum of some of your wave of progress hold you up. Remember, people who believe in you and the changes because you believe in them, and you involve them in making important decisions about their workplace and about their lives will celebrate with you when you reach your goals, when your team reaches their goals.
I am thankful to a professor, I believe it was Dr. Boller in his creative leadership class at University of Memphis, for sharing this video with our class. It is a YouTube video called "Leadership Lessons from Dancing Guy" narrated by Derek Sivers.
www.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DfW8amMCVAJQ&ei=hQ_kVPzhMYvvgwT_uoH4DA&usg=AFQjCNE_Y35gtoHu_ZscHy9ZPMfIqDWlxA&sig2=EhrMeb4IdYVL-9w77IatFg&bvm=bv.85970519,d.eXY Please watch, I promise it's short and entertaining!
www.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DfW8amMCVAJQ&ei=hQ_kVPzhMYvvgwT_uoH4DA&usg=AFQjCNE_Y35gtoHu_ZscHy9ZPMfIqDWlxA&sig2=EhrMeb4IdYVL-9w77IatFg&bvm=bv.85970519,d.eXY Please watch, I promise it's short and entertaining!
While I loved watching this because the guy and then the crowd appear to be having so much fun, I brought away a couple of points I find very important.
One is that nobody knew EXACTLY what the first dancer was doing, not exactly. They saw he was confident and he was motivated and it appeared to be working for him. So another joined him, then another, then another, then eventually everyone. The group was harmonious!! It became a dancing movement. AND while not everyone was doing the EXACT same thing at the exact same time, they were able to have a symbiotic result.
Everyone had the same goal. They were all motivated. They were all engaged. They all felt like they were contributing to the movement, and they liked where it was headed. The first dancer did not stop the second and tell him that he wasn't doing the dance the right way because he wasn't doing just like him or just like he told him to. He let him be free to dance how he felt good dancing! IF we motivate our team, if we give them the training and tools and confidence they need, we can watch them flourish doing things their own way within the guidelines and synchrony toward the same goal.
This is where real progress continues to grow after the eruption. This is how we keep our lava flow hot and flowing. This is how we all reach our goals, through symbiosis and through creativity.
