I am preparing to speak at the Loyola University Annual Women's Leadership Conference. They asked me to speak about the dynamics of change and how it relates to personal resiliency and reinvention.
I've written about my own reinvention--which was literally triggered by a clicking noise 18 months ago. But this got me thinking about the clicking noises we all hear and the choices we make to ignore them, turn the radio up louder or take them for what they truly are--messages deserving of our attention.
Sometimes the "noise" is from our organizations. Mergers, acquisitions, new structure, new systems, a change in our role. Sometimes it is from the market--telling us we need to do something different. Sometimes it is just a voice in the back of our heads, telling us "things gotta change." There are many of sources of noise, but our response can be boiled down to three categories:
- Resistance
- Resilience
- Reinvention
These are three very different paths. Resistance leads you down a slope where your productivity and value decline. Resilience is a "bounce back" path that gets you back where you started. Reinvention is a springboard that can take you above and beyond where you started. Here's my primative illustration of it:
The key is turning the corner. What helps you turn the corner? What gets you out of resistance (deny, ignore, be angry) and toward resiliency or even reinvention? Those are the crucial question people will be asking in my session at Loyola. I better get started on the answers....! There are probably answers you have already discovered--if so, please share them!
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