4th OCTOBER 2008

HOW TO INFLUENCE CHANGE

"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change".

Charles Darwin

I'm sorry for you, ... I'm sorry you don't believe in miracles.”

Lance Armstrong

One of the keys to change is to as far as possible, manage change rather than be managed by it, and the subtext to managing change is to see it coming before it arrives on your doorstep, and having a plan in place to respond. The trick is to know how to see it coming and what to do about it. What you do about it is down to you as an individual, but here are some attitudinal insights and quality questions that are in your control and may be useful...

Understand that change is constant

Learn to embrace change

Focus on how you have benefitted from change in the past

Remember what you do now influences the change to come

Appreciate what you have now

Ask yourself how can I add value to what i'm producing

Ask what's great in my life right now and how can i make it even better

Ask what are my strengths and how can i make them even more valuable and how can I best manage my weaknesses

These are just a few of the many ways in which improving your attitude to change can improve how you influence the change in your life