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Change Is Faster When You Do It With Your People, Not To Them

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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Plan before you start

‘It’s better not to engage the organization at all than for leaders to begin with false promises about the influence people will have and then pull the rug out from under them partway through their work.’

– Robert W. ”Jake” Jacobs, Leverage Change: 8 Ways to Achieve Faster, Easier, Better Results

Learn from your past

‘Approaches used in past change efforts should inform your present one. When you study past practices, you’ll gain valuable insights that will help you create faster, easier, better results this time around. … Secrets for addressing today’s challenges can be found in yesterday’s successes and failures.’

– Robert W. ”Jake” Jacobs, Leverage Change: 8 Ways to Achieve Faster, Easier, Better Results

Ask questions

‘Don’t assume you know another’s story. The more complete your picture, the more accurate it becomes. Listen for the darker stories in the organization as well as the lighter ones.’

– Robert W. ”Jake” Jacobs, Leverage Change: 8 Ways to Activate Faster, Easier, Better Results

Focus On What You Can Do Right Now

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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‘Knowing your purpose focuses your life.’- Rick Warren

Yesterday is over. It is gone. You cannot change it. What about tomorrow? What about it? It is not here yet.

So stop worrying yourself about what is not even going to happen. What about now? Today? Yes, now? We are living it!

If you do not want to miss out, you must focus on what is going on right now. You must focus on the moment, your perfect moment.

If you are tired of where you are, if you are tired of doing the same thing, then stop worrying yourself about the past. Stop thinking about your past failures, your past mistakes. Focus on where you are going, not where you are coming from.

Living in the past is not going to help you get what you want. It is not going to lift you up. Instead, it will keep you where you are. Why is that?

Because what you are doing right now is shaping your future. Where you are right now is preparing you for your future. What you are doing right now is in charge of what you will become in the future.

So if you want to get a different result, you must do things differently. If you want to make a difference in your life, you must focus on where you are. Because change happens in the present. Because growth happens in the present.

Because the past is over!