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Casual Articles - Managing Change - The First Key to Helping People to Embrace Change
Every time you hear someone say “May I have one of your business cards?" you should get excited. I know I do. That’s because I LOVE my cards. I spent thousands of dollars on printing, several hours on designing and went through 10 different layouts until I got them right.And it was all worth it.A business card is an entrepreneur’s best friend, his most valuable marketing tool and an essential element to becoming UNFORGETTABLE. Unfortunately, too many people have business cards that simply blend into the multitude of coo
Legal Assistant, or paralegal, is one of the fastest growing career tracks today. More companies are favoring legal assistants over attorneys to keep overhead costs down. Even so, attorneys still account for hiring seven out of ten paralegals.Paralegals perform many of the same tasks as attorneys. They prepare for closings, hearings, trials and corporate meetings. A legal assistant will also research and investigate facts relevant to a case such as laws, judicial decisions and legal articles. They write reports, help with legal ar
When you are leading or managing change the people under your charge will have varying reactions to the changes taking place. Few will embrace it out of the blocks, many will struggle. You can help. As popular speaker Larry Winget says, “Shut up, stop whining and get a life!”
The very first thing you must help people do, in a kind, yet straightforward way, is to help them go home and look in the mirror. Each of us needs to have a stop kidding yourself day. Teach them to ask, “Where are my present practices taking me?” That means that if I continue to react and behave in the way I am, regarding these changes – where will I be?
You see people need to understand that once you launch the ‘change’ it is going to proceed in that direction … the choice is in how they react. Understanding this principle came early to me. My first patrol in Nam as a sniper came with a Force Reconnaissance team in the mountains near Laos. We planned a ten day patrol and my partner and I took just enough c-rations for the ten days, barely. We didn’t want to carry the extra
One of the challenges facing marketers is determining the most effective level of advertising exposure for a brand, while maintaining a given budget. Conceptually, the media planner could choose continuous advertising (even exposures spread over a period of time) or follow a strategy of pulsing (“on” for some months and “off” for others). The decision is important because the wrong one will considerably affect customer response. When advertisements are run at a low frequency (very few times), they run a risk of going unnoticed. The firs
When you are leading or managing change the people under your charge will have varying reactions to the changes taking place. Few will embrace it out of the blocks, many will struggle. You can help. As popular speaker Larry Winget says, “Shut up, stop whining and get a life!”
The very first thing you must help people do, in a kind, yet straightforward way, is to help them go home and look in the mirror. Each of us needs to have a stop kidding yourself day. Teach them to ask, “Where are my present practices taking me?” That means that if I continue to react and behave in the way I am, regarding these changes – where will I be?
You see people need to understand that once you launch the ‘change’ it is going to proceed in that direction … the choice is in how they react. Understanding this principle came early to me. My first patrol in Nam as a sniper came with a Force Reconnaissance team in the mountains near Laos. We planned a ten day patrol and my partner and I took just enough c-rations for the ten days, barely. We didn’t want to carry the extra
Don’t Underestimate The Power Of A ResumeYou may have spent hours searching for your dream job and applied for a job in every promising company you came across. In spite of your sincere efforts to find a job, you may not have received an interview call yet. Have you ever stopped to wonder why none of them have ever bothered to call you?One possibility could be that you did not have the necessary expertise to qualify for the jobs that you applied for. This problem can be solved to some extent by upgrading your skills
The very first thing you must help people do, in a kind, yet straightforward way, is to help them go home and look in the mirror. Each of us needs to have a stop kidding yourself day. Teach them to ask, “Where are my present practices taking me?” That means that if I continue to react and behave in the way I am, regarding these changes – where will I be?
You see people need to understand that once you launch the ‘change’ it is going to proceed in that direction … the choice is in how they react. Understanding this principle came early to me. My first patrol in Nam as a sniper came with a Force Reconnaissance team in the mountains near Laos. We planned a ten day patrol and my partner and I took just enough c-rations for the ten days, barely. We didn’t want to carry the extra
Status exists in all societies but varies in fundamental ways. Cross cultural differences in they way in which we perceive status, gain status and react to status differ from culture to culture.In this article we examine the cross cultural differences with relation to status and analyse how they manifest in certain areas in the workplace. For the sake of simplicity we identify two types of status; ‘ascribed-status’ and ‘achieved-status’.Ascribed-status:Ascribed-status refers to those cultures that base status upon ex
You see people need to understand that once you launch the ‘change’ it is going to proceed in that direction … the choice is in how they react. Understanding this principle came early to me. My first patrol in Nam as a sniper came with a Force Reconnaissance team in the mountains near Laos. We planned a ten day patrol and my partner and I took just enough c-rations for the ten days, barely. We didn’t want to carry the extra
Armed with some of the most advanced technology, security professionals hope to combat their opponents. With the advent of the 21st century, keeping a country safe is a battle of wits rather than a matter of physical strength. The fact that the enemies also have access to the same weapons, which we use for our protection, makes the situation even worse. The weapons of war have also become the weapons of mass destruction. Though these inventions were developed with a view to make life easier, unfortunately they have landed in the wrong ha
Well, at the end of ten days, for whatever reason, the choppers didn’t come to get us. A tough Recon sergeant, knowing we were out of food, came by and said, “No whining.” It was three days before the choppers came … we didn’t eat for three days. Now that was change, but we lived and we learned and we changed. The good people in your organization will learn too.
Understanding this first hand has led me to create the first key to helping people embrace change and that is to decide whether you want to stay with the organization. I created a test I give people in my How to Cope workshop that is designed to make them face the fact that things are changing and they can get with the changes or they should lead. It’s just a fact.
The test goes something like this …
1. The first question is do you still have a job? If you don’t have a job then move on, stop the test and focus on finding a new one. Your change is different.
2. The second question is what are the facts that you know to be true as they relate to you? We all know all the horriblizing that goes on during change, here, we just want the people to focus on what is true about the changes as it r
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