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Are YOU managing change, or is it managing YOU?
BY Irene Becker , www.justcoachit.com
Are you managing at the speed of change or allowing the changes you face to manage YOU?
Imagine deciding to use every challenge as
an opportunity to learn, share and develop
solutions. Managing at the speed of change
means moving your people from asking
who did it, to what can we do about it. It
means investing time to solve the problem,
and determining how to avoid similar
problems in the future. It means getting
back on track by focusing on solutions. It
means being able to stop destructive conflict,
hidden agendas, selfishness, values
mis-alignments with a commitment to
shared goals and objectives.
It is not always easy, but managing at
the speed of change means using challenges
to developing solutions that drive
success.
Solutions that build your Q strengths; IQ enhanced
focus, potential, action-ability
under pressure, EQ/EI-emotional management,
improved communication, leadership,
SQ-values alignment. Three key
strengths that are critical for success in a
whole new world, workplace and market
place of unprecedented change, challenges,
competition and opportunity.
In every great mistake, there is an
answer that can help you fail forward.
A pivotal lesson that can help make you
manage better at the speed of change.
Success means making course corrections
when and where YOU need to, rather than
getting stuck in stasis, playing the blame
game or becoming reactive. It means
responding, leading, managing by addressing
mistakes in a way that allows the individual
or team to fail forward, to move
past the mistake by developing powerful
solutions that not only fix the immediate
problem but avert future problems.
Managing at the speed of change means
building a fence around core values.
Core values are the legs of the table, the
anchor on which business success stands.
A business without core values, an individual
or team that does not respect and protect
the integrity of its vision and mission
is destined to fail. There must be zero tolerance
for mistakes that destroy the core
values that are critical to success.
What are your core values? How are they
expressed in your workplace? How can
you use these values to inspire, engage and
lead yourself and others?
What are YOUR guidelines for success?
How can you use current
challenges to build
YOUR success guidelines?
How can you use
these guidelines to
develop the engagement,
communication,
collaboration, focus
and potential that
drives results at the
speed of change? How
can you take the lead in
defining your success
guidelines and using
them to take back
YOUR power to use
challenges to create
solutions?
The answers you seek can only be found
in getting naked with your truth by seeing
challenges/changes with new eyes.
Eyes that will allow you to embrace challenges
as learning experiences, failures as
stepping stones to success, and communication
problems as ruts in the road that
need to be addressed and fixed. Eyes that
will allow you to develop your Q strengths
by moving away from being reactive and
embracing the ability to respond to challenges
by managing change and not waiting
for change to manage or lead you.
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