Strictly Change

Change is one of those we love and hate. We love to cause it for other people, but hate it being done to us.

At the present time, it seems as though we are immersed in it, and that it has very many faces. It however is not the enemy, it just is and it is how we engage with it that creates the challenge.

As Robert Gallagher points out, “change is inevitable - except from a vending machine”.

So how can we engage with it, and turn it from something we hate, to something we can at least live productively with, and maybe even come to love?

Firstly, understand that it is not something external to us, it is a dance we are in. The reason that most “change initiatives” fail is because we think somebody else will take care of it. The reality is that we cannot separate ourselves from it, and that we have to find a way to “dance” with it.

If we can do that, we can engage with it, guide it, and take the lead. Yes, we may have to learn to do things differently, and learn new skills, but we can choose to…