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GROWTH Step 5      Turn Anxiety into Optimal Energy

Keep yourself moving ahead even when you want to stop

This step indicates how we can turn anxiety into something positive.

“When we stay within our comfort zones, we don’t experience much anxiety, but we don’t experience much growth. Knowing exactly how to make the most of our worries is something that inevitably comes up as we get closer to our goals. With no anxiety you get no results. With too much, you get poor results, But with the right amount, you get great results” (pp 68/69)

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GROWTH Step 3      Organize your Team

Whom do you know and what resources do you need to help you make   the change?

Larina Kase makes an important point about being a team leader, which I can’t remember having come across before. “You need to organize motivate and guide the team so that you are all successful. Not ‘please help me to be successful’. The higher you go, the higher your team goes”.

You need to assess who is on your team – and you frequently have no choice about this – and then assess the readiness of the team to change (‘cos if they won’t, you can’t!). Two leader behaviors are particularly important here: Read the rest of this entry »

Immunity to Change

Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey, Harvard Business Press, 2009

After more than 40 years in the HR business, I thought I knew most of it. This was my ‘big assumption’. Kegan and Lahey know a great deal more than me, I found out, and I thank them for sharing a generation of experience with me – and I hope, you too.

The authors seem to have found the answer to why people find it difficult to change – as you have doubtless found it difficult to change some of your staff. Their discovery is startlingly simple. Most people have an immunity to change. Their research over many years and thousands of people has drawn them to this conclusion, and in this gem of a book, they share their findings with us.

They show how this immunity comes about, how to identify what the immunity – or blockage – to change actually is, and most importantly, how to use their research findings in developmental  activity with your staff and even staff teams.

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I have been asked to explain a little more about the ‘average’ approach from the book Performance Intelligence at Work that we talked about in the last posting. So here is an supplementary posting for you to consider.

I am a FreeCell addict. I am fascinated by the game and I play it more than I should, I guess. Since I am a performance measurement nut, one of the features I like about the game – part of the Windows basic package, for those who haven’t come across it – is that it keeps score. After each game – win or lose – you can check your cumulative score. This allows you to calculate your average – how you are performing at the moment in Dr Julie’s terms. I have played many thousands of games over the years, so what I do is play a series of 100 games, enter my percentage wins for that 100 games, then start again. The reason I do this is simple. After a number of games have been played, the winning or losing of one game has a minuscule  effect on my overall average. Even a run of 50 wins – which I achieve sometimes – has a tiny effect on a database of 5000, but is significant in a series of 100. Read the rest of this entry »