How to Master Change & Stress

Part One - Transitional Behavior

Success has new rules that require new tools to minimize the circumstances that cause failure. This continuous climate of uncertainty, unpredictability, incompleteness and change can neutralize the effectiveness and end careers of those who lack confidence to act in this dynamic environment. We have studied what it takes to create opportunity and transform ineffective, reluctant behavior into performance and results. Reprogramming your own habits for personal success is imperative. You either want results or you don't. You are either getting results or you're not. A strong personal commitment is essential; but it is not enough. The only way to gain "THE EDGE" and to make progress on purpose is Master Change for Success.

We provide you straightforward answers in Five Pivotal Dimensions of Transition:

• 5 MEGA REALITIES that can overwhelm performance.
• 6 TRENDS that are changing how we will run organizations.
• 5 COPING RESOURCES that lower stress and raise satisfaction.
• 8 STAGE CYCLE of change that will neutralize stress.
• FORMULA TO REDUCE worker tension impacting every organization.

Objectives

• SELF-MANAGEMENT to maintain focus on priorities and not be easily distracted.
• EMPATHY to help manage the emotions of all those whom you must work closely together with.
• EMOTIONAL CONTROL to prevent becoming overwhelmed by the forces of uncertainty.
• SELF DISCIPLINE to define the basic capacities you will need to thrive through change.
• COLLABORATION to attack problems with combined effort thus greater energy and less interference.
• NEUTRALIZE STRESS to remove barriers that consume thinking, delay action & drain creativity.
• STRATEGIC PERSONAL PLANNING to maintain career focus and confidence with a map of the future.
• MASTER CHANGE to be in the front of and leading others towards success.

Part Two - Change Mastery

The only constant in life is change; some for the good, some not so; sometimes traumatic, sometimes welcome. The trick is to master change - to cope with it, embrace it and prosper. And to move on in the stream of life.

When change impacts a persons livelihood and the person is uncertain as to what that change will produce, such as occurs when an organizational downsize is imminent, the immediate effects on the organization are often devastating; in many cases worse than the actual accomplishment of the downsize action.

I teach how to cope with and overcome the fear and uncertainty brought by change. This wealth of experience comes to the fore at this crucial time, for it provides both groups, the military and civilian alike, with what they need to survive these changes.

For the higher placed civilians, all of whom are full of apprehension regarding their future, our program explains the mechanics of change and shows them how to harness and direct the intense energy of change to work for them. Our program will motivate them to renew their commitment and effort in support of the command mission and direct their energy to their personal achievement on the job. It will not change the outcome of the RIF order, but it will ease the personal pain of the workforce while they wait for their personal fate.

Part Three - Master Stress for Success

The truth is, you're under stress right now. So is your workforce. And it is seriously impacting your performance, personally and professionally. When things go wrong, as they often do, you can bet that in most cases it was the result of a personal failing, most often the failure of someone to take a routine action at a critical time. Examination of the facts usually reveals the culprit. Very close examination will probably show their personal lapse was due to stress. Moreover, the stress will most likely be of a personal, rather than professional nature.

The ability to recognize your own stress events and mitigate them will reduce your own personal anxieties and pressures and make you a better person to work with. That's great, and you will feel good about that. But such does little to increase your professional capability to lead and/or get the job done. You need people for that. People like you ... top notch professional managers, totally efficient. People who can take your orders and run with them, make things happen quickly and correctly, the first time, every time. For that, you need to get their stress identified ... alleviated ... under control.

This workshop identifies personal stress factors and gives your personnel the tools and methods to cope with these and bring them under control. We develop a personal and confidential profile on all attendees. The profile examines stress factors in four intertwined life areas: Personal. Work. Family. Couples. The profiles are needed to identify to each individual his/her own stress factors and create a personal action plan they can use to make specific changes to reduce stress and increase their personal satisfaction in life.

This workshop also identifies the very serious hidden pressures of stress caused by the specter of downsizing, base closures, realignment, outsourcing, privatization, acquisition reform and joint service commands. It is within these possibilities that most of our work stress are concentrated. We instruct managers how to approach these subjects not only within their own minds but also with their workers, with a firm view toward coping with these changes and eliminating the stress factors.

Please contact John Evans if you are interested in a
presentation for your organization.