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Managing Change: |
Behavioral Change The Starting Point of Your Organizational Change Program |
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by Vadim Kotelnikov, Founder, 1000ventures.com
"Your will never forcefully change someone else, but by liking that person as he or she is and helping them to like themselves even more, you will give them the most amazing power to change themselves." - Carl Adams, psychoanalyst
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Structuring Your Change Program The challenge and the shape of an organization's behavioral change program depends on the corporate culture and the targeted behaviors that need to be changed. Your change program needs to be explicitly built around these challenges. "Very often, these programs involve the creation of incentives which elegantly reinforce the desired behavior (and therein reinforce the change loop in the learning dynamic)."1 Starting with Yourself The best place to start change is with yourself. If whatever you do doesn't work, you must be flexible - you must change your action plan if the current one does not produce the required results. If you want other people to change, you must be prepared to make the first step yourself. If you cannot change your environment, you should change your attitude. To achieve effective personal change, consider practicing the NLP Technology of Achievement that was specially developed to discover how people can excel, and most particularly when managing change - how to create the 'difference that makes the difference'...More
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Bibliography:
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"The Centerless Corporation", Bruce A.Pasternack and Albert. J. Viscio, 1998
