Depending on the level of resilience in the organization and the individual, change can leave people shaken, with a wounded sense of self-worth. Reinforce your efforts by providing reasonable goals. Let these accomplishments restore their faith in themselves. Keep people from just going through the motions. Employees who don’t believe in themselves or in what they are doing deliver little of their potential and hold back the team.

Small wins provide a sense of accomplishment. If you are always focused on the horizon, you never have a sense of how close you are to your destination. You are truly always living in the future and never in the present. That's what makes smaller wins so important—much like beating most of the teams during a season leads to the ultimate championship.