Are you struggling to meet the
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changes COVID presents to your life?
Our worlds have undoubtedly been turned upside down with the onslaught of COVID; worse still, there’s nothing much we can do to eradicate its impact. It’s ‘business unusual’ from hereon in; business ‘as usual’ has long gone. There’s no better time than now to consider change in both our lives and work. The following stages of the famed ADKAR model collectively act as a diagnostic to identify where you may face blockages to change or where you are resisting any movement through to the ‘post COVID era’. Once highlighted, these blockages provide your starting point for a targeted and individualized change plan that should assist you to build your own post-COVID strategy.
equally an awareness of the consequences of not changing, there will be little chance for change to occur. Desire to change will never occur without this awareness, yet the bad news is that even with awareness in place, the next stage of ‘desire’ is not guaranteed.
Whether you are looking to change up a career or life in general, we recommend you: Identify a change that you are being subjected to unwillingly identify blockages that seem to be holding you back from action, and then discover ways to manage that resistance. Resistance should remain your friend; it simply needs your tender attention as its lessons have been gift-wrapped for you and you alone Reimagine and build a post-blockage future where the change no longer deters you
Desire Once you have a high level of awareness, consider working with your level of ‘desire’ to make a specific change occur. Desire is different from ‘a want’; it really taps into what it is that you are prepared to do to ensure your preferred change will occur. Will you do whatever it takes to make the change happen, participate in or fully support the change, or could you easily find reasons and excuse s
Your Awareness may be blocked by your viewpoint of the current situation, circulating rumors or even the source of the change. Ask yourself: Which part of my job or life has room for alternative approaches as a result of this new reality? What will happen to my career, on both a short and long term if I do not explore those alternatives?
Awareness Awareness is the first requirement for any change. Without awareness of the reason for the need to change, o r
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