The Customer Success Lead
Adoption and Outcomes Lead
“My launch slipped a week and the team is deflated. What do I do?”
First, what did the launch exist to change for your customers? Write that outcome down; the date was only ever a proxy for it. Call the customers who were waiting before they hear it elsewhere, own the slip and give them the new date. Then find one small win the team can put in front of a real user this week, so morale gets a data point instead of a mood.
Run a short reset: what is green, what is still yellow, one owner and one date per item. People recover from a slip the moment they can see the next milestone.
Sample response from this soul.