We live in a world where we’re always navigating change on one level or another. As people, our capacity and the ability to navigate change vary from person to person. When facing change, our instinctive responses could be to run and hide or rise to the challenge. We may experience feelings of vulnerability, empowerment, isolation, or relational connection.
When working to help clients successfully navigate change, we start by asking them to reflect on an experience from their lives when they have successfully navigated a change experience.
In this episode of the Leadership Vision Podcast, we will be asking you that same question: “When have YOU successfully navigated change?”
This is part of our multi-episode series walking through our team engagement process, simulating a client engagement for you while providing some tools and examples to help your team.
Today our conversation around change will focus on personal stories of change. Specifically, a change all of us can relate to changing schools. No matter who we are, all of us have, at some level, navigated a change in schools at some point in our lives. Be that due to a physical house move, or moving from elementary, to middle, high school, and beyond.
Why Focus on Changing Schools?
Everyone has successfully navigated change at one point in their life. Changing schools is one experience that everyone can identify with.
When working with clients, we really want to focus on the reality of what happens when we face change and to remind ourselves that we have, at one point, successfully navigated it. When we’re faced with a significant change event, it creates a neurological response where we perceive it as a threat. Be that physically, psychologically, or emotionally. This can shut us down and close us to the opportunity that this change can bring us. So when we think about a positive change we’ve already navigated, we can look at some of the triggers and responses differently.
Brian, Linda, and I each share an experience of changing school. Brian shares a graduate school experience, Linda shares a college experience, and I share what it was like moving school in middle school.
As you listen, think about your own story of change, then answer this prompt: what’s important to know about me in the change process is. Share your answer in the comments, social media, or with your friends, colleagues, or anyone who will listen.
Next week, we will give you some very practical tools to help you understand your unique needs and capacities for successfully navigating change.
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