Change used to be optional.
It wasn’t that long ago that if your personality suited stability and certainty, you might choose a career in a large blue-chip company.
Oversimplistic? Yes, but you get the point right?
The rules of the game have changed now and exponential change and disruption affects every single organisation.
Change used to be optional. It’s not any longer.
So, imagine you crave stability, you work at a large company and now you have to contend with uncertainty, volatility and change.
Think of a normal distribution curve.
The curve in this instance maps “How comfortable are you with change?”
Here’s the trap. Leaders often sit in a very different place on that curve from the people they lead.
The people driving change are often the people most comfortable with it.
How does your team map out across that curve?
And what can you do to help each person.
I suspect many of the alarming wellbeing and burnout statistics we see today are not simply a workload problem. They’re a change problem
Another wellbeing programme won’t cut it.
There’s only 2 real options:
- those people leave because they can’t get comfortable with the pace of change.
- you help those people with the mindset shifts - to think differently about the world.
Understanding that you need a new set of mental charts for our changing world is an uncomfortable conversation but a wholly neccessary one.
That’s exactly why we have created the Change Ready Workshop
It’s taking people at all levels through the mindset shifts and bringing them to life so that they can adapt to our ever-changing world.
Doing nothing is not an option.
Doing what you’ve always done is an option that is running out of road fast.
Work with us, work with someone else. That’s cool. Just do something to help your team who are forced to change when it’s something they loathe!
Want to understand how your team really feels?
Here are three experiments to play with around this idea:
Two Minute Experiment
Print out this article with the normal distribution curve. Mark on that curve where you are. Now, take your best guess as to where 5-10 different colleagues of yours sit.
Five Minute Experiment
Take your marked-up curve and discuss it with colleagues as to where they actually sit. Just notice the broad range of places where people sit.
Ten Minute Experiment
Reflect on what you are doing to help your team adapt to change. Now reflect on how adequate that is and what you can do to close that gap. Take a single action to close that gap.
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