Devoted to Managers and those that seek to improve their management skills

Change can be managed but not controlled

From a managers perspective, change will always be a part of our lives in the workplace. The biggest thing we can do is to adopt change as a part of our business culture. Our workers need to learn to embrace change rather than be afraid of it, and as a result...resist it.

We need to realize that businesses are really an organism, far more than an organization. It is full of living entities called people. People were never created to be put in a box.

Change is of course inevitable in any business or place where people interact. All we as managers can do is help set some parameters and let that river of people within our businesses flow.

Here are 42 things that are connected to letting change permeate our businesses and releasing people to flow:
 

1. Inevitable

2. Risk

3. Resistance

4. Honesty

5. Integrity

6. Stages

7. Process

8. Learn to fly

9. Endless possibilities

10. Embrace change

11. Engage

12. Involved

13. Development

14. Understand the big picture

15. We're on a journey

16. Look beyond survival

17. Change is forever

18. Active participant

19. Resistance brings stress

20. Be part of a team

21. Communicate

22. Change can be hard

23. Everything is a journey

24. You can't travel while in a ditch (rut)

25. Need trust

26. Employee participation

27. Look for ideas

28. Listen for ideas

29. Become an organism

30. Learn to play

31. Have fun

32. Comfort zones

33. Trial-and-Error

34. Cannot remain the same

35. Tap into the collective

36. Focus on the positive

37. Encourage trying new things

38. Ordinary people can do extraordinary things

39. Don't be afraid of the people

40. Begin where people are

41. Remove roadblocks

42. Don't punish things tried that fail - reward honest trying

42. Provide the river bank, but let the river flow