Anticipate trends, live in the moment, get breathing room, and enjoy the chaotic unrolling of events. Learn proactive steps to thrive on change! Gain specific skills to live peacefully and productively in the eye of the storm. Develop your own inner game and internal gyroscope to stabilize yourself, and stay on purpose. The pace of life and work has definitely increased. Let it fuel your thriving.
- Things change. People transition. Learn to differentiate what is inevitable, essential, and unavoidable. Recognize and guide the transitions employees need to make.
- Focus on five things you can control, no matter what is going on around you.
- What in your organizational life is fixed, negotiable, choice?
- Learn the value of innoculation theory. Reduce surprise. Anticipate and guide trends that already exist in your business with a review of your recent business cycles.
- Determine specific mindsets, mentalities and barriers that block your ability to respond. Uncover the impact of the survival mentality on your business.
- Assess the environment in your business. Deming says, "Drive fear out of the workplace." Change leads to temporary, though certain, incompetence. What specilic changes can you make to provide a psychologically safe climate to foster response-agility™, seamless communication, and deep involvement on the part or your employees? Do you have employees who are keyed to respond to change?
- How do you deal with info-mania? Learn to spot leaders and sources in the field that are credible and that provide classical "best practices." Detect patterns, syndromes, trends.
- Assess your operation to create a fully functioning team. Enhance collaboration from all employees on the specific practices required to function optimally.
- Use the "safety pin" model of communication from air traffic controllers. Deal with deteriorating information.
- Develop inside-out stress management techniques, including healthy thinking, to cope with uncertainty and rapid change.
Clients Benefited: National Wholesale Druggists' Association, American Association of Mental Health Administrators, Expanded Polystyrene Division of the Society of Plastics Industries, Nurses Association of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Food & Drug Administration