Tools for Improvement – An E-Newsletter
September 2010
Do You Manage Change, or Does Change Manage You?

Robert Eaton, former Chairman of Chrysler Corporation once said, “Any culture, be definition, exists primarily to prevent change, to set in stone the lessons of the past.”

How willing are we to embrace change?  I had a friend that always claimed he was a “change agent,” yet when it actually came down to making changes he was as resistant as any one else.  But what is change all about?  William Bridges, PhD tells us that it isn’t the changes that do you in, it’s the transitions.

Change is situational, it is an event.  Transition is psychological; it is the process that people go through as they comes to terms with the details of the new situation that change brought about.

Claes Janssen is a psychologist and writer.  He introduced the four rooms of change.  The Four Rooms of Change is a theory that deals with change, with what happens with people and organizations in change and transition and how they can influence their own and others change processes.

In Contentment you are just that — content and without a change need or demand. Your energy is focused …read more