Today our staff met together to hear a presentation about how to navigate transitions. I’ve been working here for 3 years and in that time I’ve witnessed a change in executive director, leadership structure as a whole, a division into teams which split between two sites and other technical changes such as use of cell phones and google calendar. The staff has tripled in size since I began here and the split into two locations was wild and chaotic because of real estate logistics and construction.
The speaker today asked people to list all the changes that have impacted them over the past few years. There were at least a dozen things on the white board. She led us through a discussion of the losses we individually and as an agency experienced with all of those changes.
But the statement I loved most today was the one where she waved her hand at the white board and said that list represented “change” but “transition” is what happens inside of us.
We interchange these terms all the time and yet making a distinction between what happens outside of me and inside of me helps me think about what I have control over and how I am personally responding to unforeseen changes and those that I am actually an active participant in.
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March 10th, 2020 at 10:13 pm
Good point Amelia. I will apply it in my own life. Thanks for sharing. PS: You were not the last 😉
March 11th, 2020 at 8:11 pm
Oh, I like thinking about that difference between change and transition, too. Thanks for giving me something to think about!