Change Is Everybody's Business

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Patricia McLagan. Change Is Everybody's Business

An important note from the author to you

Acknowledgments

Foreword

BY KENNETH BLANCHARD, PH.D. Co-Author, The One Minute Manager®

Introduction. Claim Your Change Power

PART I. Powerful Beliefs

A Recent History of Beliefs

Belief #1. What is ‘Normal’

Belief #2. On Resistance and Negative Emotions

Belief #3. When Change Starts

Belief #4. How Deliberate Change Happens

Belief #5. When to Commit

Belief #6. The Role of Formal Leaders

Belief #7. The Role of Followers

Part I Conclusion

7 Empowering Beliefs About Change

What is Your Empowering Belief Quotient?

Guide to Interpreting “What is Your Empowering Belief Quotient?”

PART II. Powerful Character

Character Lesson #1. Stand for Something

Character Lesson #2. Be Aware of Your Beliefs and Assumptions

Character Lesson #3. Use Your Emotions

Character Lesson #4. Add Value in Your World

The Practicalities

Part II Conclusion

How Empowering is Your Character?

A Questionnaire

PART III. Powerful Actions

Action Lesson #1. Be a Business

Action Lesson #2. Develop Information Age Skills

Action Lesson #3. Be Your Own Human Resource Manager

Have Clear Performance Goals

Go After the Work That Uses Your Motivated Competencies Where there is energy, there is action

Find Out What Your Competencies are Worth

Have a Vision of Your Future

Develop Networks

Have an Active Learning Agenda

Action Lesson # 4. Take Charge of Your Own Change Process

Part III Conclusion

How Empowered are Your Actions?

A Questionnaire

Section A: Be a Business

Section B: Develop Information Age Skills

Section C: Be Your Own Human Resource Manager

Section D: Take Charge of Change

Afterword

Resources for Continued Learning

About the Author

About McLagan International, Inc

Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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HAVE YOU EVER eaten an energy bar? It helps you bring your own power and resources to the surface. Change Is EVERYBODY’s Business is meant to be an energy bar for you in working with change. I’m writing it because in over 30 years of consulting all over the world, I’ve seen few people fully access their change power. Instead, I’ve seen disillusionment, fear, blaming, “stuckness,” and dependency. I want it better for us.

I want both of us, all of us, to claim our change power – unleash it in ways that help us create a better personal and shared world. It’s something you and we CAN do. The question is, “WILL we?”

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For example, it’s refreshing to recognize that resistance is a wake-up call rather than a problem to avoid… that leaders need to be committed learners rather than having to put up a front of perfection… that we can use rather than deny emotions. We can act as though each of us is a business within the larger business. And, as she says in Action Lesson #3, “.. put yourself in the driver’s seat. Don’t hand your management of yourself over to anyone – not to human resources, not to manage-ment – not to anyone else.” This isn’t a call to mayhem. It’s a call to responsible and conscious use of power.

It’s in both our and our organizations’ best interests to respond to this call to claim our change power – to make change everybody’s business. Enjoy!!

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