Whether he knows it or not, Chris McChesney is further along in AV-IT integration than some who work in the business.
Last fall, McChesney—global practice leader of execution at FranklinCovey and co-author of “The 4 Disciplines of Execution”–was among the speakers at Atrion’s AlwaysOn Leadership Symposium, where the theme was change.
This year, he’ll deliver the opening keynote at NSCA’s Business and Leadership Conference, with a session dubbed “Do You Remember the Last Major Initiative that Died in Your Organization?”
With so much consolidation going on in the AV integration world, global integration taking them around the world, increased demands from customers and a life cycle that has many of this generation of leaders handing the baton of their companies to the next generation, “there’s going to be change in this industry,” says McChesney.
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His session will focus on how integrators can “execute on a plan or against a result that requires a change in behavior or a high degree of human engagement” and four principles that can lead to “change you can’t make just because you’re the boss.”
McChesney, who gives some variation of this presentation around the country throughout the year, says he customizes some of the emphasis points of what he discusses, but the four principles that are at the heart of it “are really baked into human behavior.”
And, as much as he advocates for the necessity for making major changes, McChesney knows it’s not easy, especially for those who are having success.
“What makes it hard to change is you’re doing it while maintaining your operation,” he says.
