The statements on the slides explore our readiness for change and help us see that we must be ready for change before we expect others to be. They help us observe our behaviors around change and challenge who we are when we "react" victim or owning the change.

1. Creating
Positive
Change
In Your Workplace and In
Your Community
Designed for Leadership
Eugene / Springfield
2009

2. Change Is The Norm, Not The
Exception

3. Humans Have Contradictory
Desires - We Want Both
Stability and Novelty

4. Even Desirable Change Can
Cause Stress

5. There Are Two Basic
Approaches To Change -
Reactive and Proactive

6. The Two Responses to Change
Reactive Proactive
•
• We are at choice now
Trapped in the past /
•
future Fun, Life is a game
• •
Bored - Frustrated Joyful, Peace
• •
Anger / Hurt Allow others to be who
• they are
Judgment
•
• Responsible
Waiting for others to do
•
• Outrageous
Should
•
• Freedom
Worry
•
• Mastery
Blaming
•
• What is “is!” Bad stuff still
Live in pity for self
happens; life is messy

7. To Cope With
Change, We Need
To Understand
Our Own
Thoughts And
Feelings When
Confronted By It

8. Resistance to Change Stems Mainly From
Our Feelings Of Insecurity

9. It Is Reasonable To Be
Unreasonable About Change In
The Early Stages

10. Reactive
Where our accountability resides with others
Life happens to us
Adapted with permission from Assertive Communication: A Solution Based
Approach by Pam K. Farmer, Ph.D, SPHR Strategic Solutions Catalyst
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11. In Coming to Terms With Change, We
Usually Experience a Series of Stages;
Resistance, Justification, Consideration, and
Resolution

12. Bird Problem at the Lincoln Memorial
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Why?
Why?
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13. Water Crystals

14. Text
“If you want to change your life, you
must start with you. When you do,
William James
be proactive, do it flamboyantly American philosopher
1842-1910
and start immediately.”