Quick Tips for Change Management
Do You Have the Skills to Manage Ongoing Change?
Change is the new norm. Having the right mindset to manage change isn’t only a good thing for your own mental wellbeing - it’s critical to career longevity. When we accept ongoing change and disruption as the new reality, it becomes clear that we can best succeed in today’s economy by cultivating two key skills... Positivity and a growth mindset.
Good News!
According to science, mindfulness training has been shown to reduce stress RethinkCaree improving collaboration, innovation, team building, and decision making under pressure. In short, it allows you to manage constant ongoing change - like a BOSS!
Five Things to Know:
1. Remember, every moment is a choice. When there are competing demands for your time, feeling out of control is the enemy of time management - and a major cause of stress. Take time to determine your most important commitments and make decisions where you have the greatest control (and impact) first.
2. Manage your time. Most people procrastinate for three reasons: They don’t know how to do the task or get started, they don’t like to do the task, or are afraid of failure. Break large projects into small, manageable, tasks and prioritize from there.
3. Tackle important tasks first. Events and activities fall into one of four categories: not urgent and not important, urgent but not important, not urgent but important, and urgent and important. Spend the majority of your time on the last two categories.
4. Change management is the perfect time to be “MINDFUL”. Apply Moment-tomoment awareness, Inspire & connect with others, Non-judgmental attitude, Detach from unhelpful thoughts, Forgive and let go, Unconditional acceptance, Listen with a beginner’s mind.
5. What’s the best place to start?
Our “Build Emotional Intelligence” training collection has mini-courses, trainers, sessions, articles and exercises to help you build emotional intelligence skills.
Develop Inner Calm, Emotional Resilience, and Cognitive Resilience with the famous Creating Mindful Leaders courses.
Apply the Golden Rule
In times of change, everyone is experiencing stress. Remember to Tweet others the way you would like to be Tweeted. :)
Be an encourager today. The world has enough critics already.
8 Ways to Be Mindful When Managing Change
6. Share Your Gratitude
7. Forgive and Let Go
8. Take Mini-Breaks
93% of users report “RethinkCare helped me Reduce Stress.”
Where Can I Learn More?
Use the RethinkCare app or read Elizabeth A. Stanley’s book, Widen the Window, to train skills to manage stress through ongoing change and disruption.
In Times of Change, Train for Growth!
A Growth mindset embraces challenges, persists through obstacles, sees effort as the path to mastery, learns from feedback and finds lessons and inspiration in the success of others - all to achieve more. A fixed mindset does the exact opposite.
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