January 11th, 2010

Change vs. Transformational Change

I was leading a training on Change today and the question came up, “How can we get a different result around making a change when people are fed up with all the changes they have been asked to make?”

Great question, and it brings to mind the distinction of change vs. transformational change. (more…)

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December 10th, 2009

Victim of the Change Cycle

I recently became a Certified Trainer for a dynamic program called the Change Cycle(TM). The Change Cycle is a model developed by researchers that describes change as a process and the steps along the way. Here’s an interesting fact: No matter if the change is perceived as a good change or a bad change we still go through all the steps along the way.

To illustrate the power of this steps along the way thing, let me tell you a little about my experience of changing from a lifelong PC user to a MAC novice. (more…)

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November 6th, 2009

Deviation – the Unexpected way to create a new habit!

The reason I bring this up is that I was telling someone the story of how I began routinely giving to my local food shelf and how this new habit got created accidentally from a single deviation.

One definition for deviation, “the difference between an observed value and the expected value of a variable or function”, although mathematical in nature, also applies to how doing something outside of my regular routine led me to create a new habit – quite unexpectedly. Since we often find it hard to create and stick to new habits, this is one way to make creating a new habit easier – a lot easier. (more…)

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