Develop the necessary mindset and actions to adapt well to whatever changes come your way
- Knowing that you need to change or even want to change isn’t enough
- Without re-wiring your thinking and knowing what actions to take, all you get is “wish” and “want”, and often “stuck-ness.”
Develop the ability to adapt
- To get up to speed with the attitude and skills required to make the changes that life and work now require.
- The ability to adapt is the key indicator to success in turbulent times
- It is the capacity to be flexible and resourceful in the face of ever-changing conditions.
- To respond in a resilient and productive manner when change is required
Another word for adaptability is agility
- 89% of more than 1500 executives surveyed worldwide, ranked agility as very or extremely important to business success.
- According to Webster’s, agile means the ability to move with an easy grace. Having a quick and resourceful and adaptable character
- However, it may have nothing to do with
character because some of us already know how to do it and the rest of us have
to learn, quickly.
- Otherwise you will just keep spinning your wheels and complaining in fear when faced with change
Aikido masters say “To be successful in life three kinds of mastery are required.”
- Mastery with self
- Understanding our feelings and thoughts and how to regulate and direct them
- Mastery with others
- Being able to create shared understanding and shared action
- Mastery with change
- Having the capacity to adapt easily without losing our center, our values, talents and sense of purpose.
Re-source: Response
Be an expert at riding the monster waves of change
The process
- This mastery begins with understanding the
process of adaptability
- First, you have to accept what happened
- Then, you need to expand you options
- Then, take action
We do this process when the change is small
- If you are planning to go out to dinner with a
friend and she calls at the last minute and cancels.
- You think to yourself, “well that’s out”- accepting
- “What else can I do this evening” – expanding
- Then you go do it – action
It is when changes are big, painful, confusing and/or disruptive of your hopes and dreams that it is hard to see that there is a process at work
We have to be aware of the process to help us avoid getting stuck along the way, suffering needlessly and using precious time.
- We are not just asked to adapt these days but to do it speedily
- How quickly we can go through this process is what differentiates average to change master
“OK, that’s over; Now what?”
- Expect to see the opportunities that the change presents
- When you start to become conscious of how the process of adaptation works, you face future changes with greater confidence.
craving and resource from “Adaptability” – How to survive change you didn’t ask for – by M.J. Ryan
