Change happens when the ‘hows’ meet the ‘whys’

Let’s face it, we’re all in the middle of change of some kind….change in career, in organizational structure, in how we live our lives, relationships.  The paradox of change is that it’s a constant.  Many however fight change tooth and nail as they are way too comfortable in the old ways even if they no longer serve them.

Nothing is easy when you’re not willing to look at it in any other way than as difficult.

“The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created–created first in the mind and will, created next in activity. The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making them, changes both the maker and the destination.” - John Schaar

Are you creating your future or falling into it by someone else’s design? The gap between where you are and where you want to be is filled by what you choose to do in the time available to you; every conversation, thought, choice and decision. I printed that on the notebooks I give my clients.  Why?  Because their future is created now with every choice they make.  For some, just that one change in behaviour and perspective, and taking responsibility for their future is change in itself and a profound change it is!

Coaches are personal change agents.  We need to work with clients to move with organizational change as their role shifts, while making sense of their meaning-making systems. If it doesn’t make sense to them personally, they will fight it and not work within it.

“What’s really driving the boom in coaching, is this: as we move from 30 miles an hour to 70 to 120 to 180……as we go from driving straight down the road to making right turns and left turns to abandoning  cars and getting motorcycles…the whole game changes, and a lot of people are trying to keep up, learn how not to fall.”  — John Kotter, Professor of Leadership, Harvard Business School

How do you weave through the traffic of change with ease and panache?  In other words, what roadblocks do you have to eliminate?

Something to check out…  

One of the participants in my last School of Shadow Coaching class recommended a book and website called Beyond Bullet Points.  www.beyondbulletpoints.com   Check it out as an alternative to the usual PowerPoint presentations.  Super neat!

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