If, as a Manager, You Are Required to Pass on Information

Multiple Choice

If, as a manager, you are required to pass on information or an instruction to your team about a change that they are unlikely to agree with or support, you should:

A) criticise the change and get your team on side by saying that you also disagree with it.
B) verbally support the change to your team, but make it obvious through your body language that the opposite is actually true.
C) look at the situation from the strategic perspective and try to understand the overall reasons behind the change.
D) leave announcing the change until it actually needs to be implemented, so that it will be too late for any disagreement among the team.
E) threaten to resign unless there is greater consultation in relation to the change.