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Keep teams steady when the org chart moves

A reorg is decided at the top and lived team by team. Rising Team prepares every manager to explain the change, rehearse the conversation they’re dreading and reset how their team works, while leadership sees where it’s landing.

The problem

Orgs are changing faster than ever, and people don’t know where they stand

A reorg arrives as an all-hands and a slide. Then every manager has to explain it to their own team, usually without preparing, often while they’re still taking in the news themselves. The questions people really have get answered by rumor.

Change lands in a conversation between a manager and their team. At this pace, that can’t be left to chance. It needs a system that prepares every manager, every time.

An org chart under a VP with three teams is redrawn under a new CTO with two. The people who move are left asking: who do I report to now, is my project still happening, is my role changing? VP New CTO Team A Team B Team C Merged Who do I report to now? Is my project still happening? Is my role changing?

Five times the change in under a decade

Planned changes the average employee went through in a year

Gartner, via Harvard Business Review, 2023
  • 2016 2
  • 2022 10

Restructures, culture changes, new tech systems: more of them each year, landing on the same people, often at once.

How it works

One reorg, stage by stage

Take an engineering director. A new CTO means new processes and new priorities, two teams becoming one, and work the team cares about being deprioritized. Here’s how Arti, their AI leadership personal trainer, gets them and their team through it, and what each step adds.

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  1. Before the announcement
    Working session

    Plan what to say

    Arti helps the director draft the message for their own team: what’s changing, what isn’t, which work is being paused and why. It starts from your values and leadership principles, so every manager’s version holds together.

    Adds Clarity
  2. The day before
    Role play

    Rehearse the hard part

    Arti plays a team member whose project is being deprioritized. The director asks it to get a little more upset and runs it again, then gets a score on their objective, clarity and empathy.

    Adds Confidence
  3. Announcement day
    Coaching session

    Talk through what happened

    Two people went quiet in the meeting. Arti already knows them from the team’s sessions, so its coaching is about these two people, not people in general.

    Adds Trust
  4. Week 1
    Team session

    Reset how the team works

    With two teams now one, the director runs Working Styles: everyone writes a user manual for how they work, so the new team doesn’t learn it the hard way. Minis in the weekly meeting keep the conversation going.

    Adds Connection
  5. Day 30
    Custom team session

    Put the new direction into practice

    Rising Team builds a team session around your transformation framework and the new CTO’s priorities. Every manager runs it with their own team, so each team works out what the change means for their work, and hears it in the same words.

    Adds Alignment
  6. Day 90
    Leadership’s view

    See where the change has landed

    Anonymized trends show which teams are still working through the change, and the pulse after each session shows trust and connection recovering.

The cascade

One direction, every team, in the same words

Most change cascades lose something at every level. Rising Team builds team sessions around your transformation framework, and every manager runs the same one with their own team, with step-by-step guidance. The direction set at the top is the one each team hears, and puts into practice.

  • Built on your transformation framework, values and guardrails
  • Led by each team’s own manager, with no prep from HR
  • Anonymized trends show leadership where it’s landing
A team session built on your transformation framework reaches four directors, then lights up their twelve teams one after another. Your transformation framework Teams reached: 12 of 12
Customer story

Trust that kept pace with transformation

DXC World Network

“Rising Team has encouraged personal growth, increased job satisfaction and reduced stress for my team.”

Debi GiffordIT Strategic Initiatives, DXC Technology

DXC’s IT organization took on a major back-office transformation across processes, data and systems. With CIO sponsorship, every manager ran at least one Rising Team session a quarter, so trust kept pace with the change.

  • 23% increase in employee retention
  • 26% higher scores on happiness in role
  • 3% boost in productivity and issue resolution
Read the DXC story

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FAQ

Questions leadership teams ask

When should we bring Rising Team in: before or after the announcement?

Before, if you can: managers do their best work on a change when they’ve planned the message and rehearsed the hard conversation before they face their team. But it helps at any point, and teams already in the middle of a reorg can start with a session to reset how they work.

Can Arti reflect our change plan and how we want it explained?

Yes. Arti is built on your company values, leadership frameworks and guardrails, including topics you want kept out of bounds. Rising Team can also build team sessions around your transformation framework and priorities, so every manager and team puts the same direction into practice.

Are managers’ conversations with Arti private?

Yes, completely. The organization sees only anonymized trends, aggregated across people. Arti never passes what one person tells it into anyone else’s conversations: if a manager tells Arti they’re struggling with the reorg, that never reaches their own manager.

How much time does it ask of managers?

As much as they choose. Arti books its sessions into each manager’s calendar, and 60% of people choose to spend 30 minutes or more a week with it. Team sessions come with step-by-step guidance, and Minis take 15 minutes inside a meeting the team already has.

How will we know it’s working?

A pulse after each team session tracks connection and effectiveness, and Rising Team measures results against a control group. Customers see a 30% rise in trust and connection scores and a 20% or greater lift in manager effectiveness within one quarter. During its transformation, DXC’s IT organization saw 23% higher retention.

Is our data used to train AI models?

Never. Customer data is never used to fine-tune, train or improve any AI models at Rising Team or by its third-party partners, and each AI service it works with contractually commits not to train on the data it sends them.

The org chart will move again. Make sure your teams can too.

See how Rising Team helps every manager lead their team through the next reorg, and shows you where it’s landing.