If the culture of the company is Failure Is Unacceptable and people that fail will be punished…It is nearly impossible for people to change to a new way of doing things. Every time a change is expected, temporary incompetence happens.
If you are asked to learn a new skill. The fear that your peers may see you as temporarily incompetent causes you to reject the change outright.
Your organization and work are changing around you, whether you want it to or not.
Having an understanding of how this change takes place, the steps that people go through and the systems-that-drive the negative and positive behaviors to this change are requisite to this change lasting or fading away.
Stepping out of a state of overwhelm and anxiety during these challenging and changing times in human services is not always easy.
This advanced program will assist Managerial-Leaders in developing the skills needed to successfully master the management of organizational complexity.
If a team seems un-movable, don’t just push harder and scream about how obstinate they are being…resistance is futile. Use the inevitability of change to slightly shift their shared perception from stuck to change.
The greater your business and you can understand, handle and plan for complexity then the more likely the change that you want to have happen will happen.
Recently I was sent an email from a past client, asking me for some advice, team building activities and programmatic ideas about developing programs for change within an organization. Below is the gist of my response; This person hired me to facilitate a 3 day workshop on Instituting a Successful Change. The follow-up reported the … Continued
“Our agency is often changing plans, don’t you think that instead of focusing on planning that we should be focusing on peoples ability to deal with change?”
The insidious thing about the causal point of view is that it leads us to say:”Of course, it had had to happen like that.” Whereas we ought to think: It may have happened like that – and also in many other ways.
We are in interesting times; and it is time to STOP the causal trap of inward spiraling doom loops of “it had to happen like that” is bullshit. It may have happened many other ways, and now you can cease upon the many other ways.