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Taking Charge of Change written by Shari Caudron. By Collin Frierson Andrew Verburg. Shari Caudron. Award-winning business journalist Published in Business Finance , Industry Week , Workforce , Training & Development , Black Enterprise and Chief Executive magazines
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Taking Charge of Change written by Shari Caudron By Collin Frierson Andrew Verburg
Shari Caudron • Award-winning business journalist • Published in Business Finance, Industry Week, Workforce, Training & Development, Black Enterprise and Chief Executive magazines • Contributing editor of Business Finance
The Seven Principles of Successful Change • Accept your worth and acknowledge others’ worth. • Generate trust. • Learn by empathy. • Embrace change.
The Seven Principles of Successful Change • Unleash the synergy. • Discover champions, depend on masters and find a sage. • Liberate decision-making.
Why Manage the Pace of Change • Information Technology keeps the pace of change too quick for most people to adapt and feel comfortable. • “People are basically control freaks. We have established expectations, and when those expectations change and we feel we can’t control the changes, we go a little crazy.”
Managing the Pace of Change • Become a scholar of the change process • Cultivate personal resilience • Focus top management’s energy on a key set of change initiatives • Know your purpose and vision. • Involve employees in the change process
Taking Charge of Change • Establish performance measures • Let the external market guide decisions • Allow mistakes • Manage paradigm life cycles • Pursue continuous learning
How to Enhance Your Speed of Change • Positive outlook. • Focus. • Flexibility. • Organization. • Pro-activeness.
Source • http://www.businessfinancemag.com/magazine/archives/article.html?articleID=4931&pg=1