What is your initial reaction to change? (Copy)
The Challenge
With all the changes that have occurred this year, this might be a good time to think about how you react to change. Your range of emotional responses to change could include shock, fear, anxiety, and/or excitement. Are you quick to see opportunities or risks associated with change? Are there some changes you are more likely to embrace than others? Why might that be? Are you quick to embrace new ideas or are you more likely to support the status quo?
Why do this?
Change brings both risk and opportunity. An entrepreneur identifies the opportunities that change brings and develops improved products or services that will move them toward their goals.
Change is inevitable and can cause a range of emotional reactions. Understanding how you tend to react helps you move more rapidly into response mode when an unanticipated change occurs. Only then are you able to decide how to respond proactively and positively.
What’s next?
Poll two or three colleagues about how their response to change is similar or different from your own. Comparing perspectives may broaden your thinking about the changes you are experiencing and offer other possibilities for action.
