How to handle personal and organizational change. Practical strategies and suggestions on coping. How to look at organizational change, assess your own response. Narrated gently and reassuringly by Dr. Dorri Jacobs, with actors role-playing scenes. People discuss the stress of packing for a company move, changing and losing their jobs, seeking a promotion, the impact of a merger, transferring abroad, company reorganization This audio cassette explores attitudes, feelings and beliefs about change, why resistance occurs and what to do to deal with it, and provides ten guidelines for managing any change.
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"This cassette can be employed by itself or in conjunction with a workshop. In a convenient and low-cost format, the audio tape offers organizations a useful mechanism for guiding people through the trial of major change. If you can't bring yourself to invest much money for workshops on the psychological aspects of change, this tape has to be one of the least expensive approaches--for your own library or as resource for others. For those who feel it's not quite respectable to talk about personal feelings on the job, here is a private means for exploring why they feel gripped with anxiety, anger, or guilt as they try to carry out a downsizing.
Whether used alone or as a part of a larger intervention, Your Personal Program for Managing Change is an excellent resource and a real service to the field." -- Kent D. Fairfield in The Lamplighter, the NY Metro American Society for Training & Development Newsletter
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"Working in today's fast-paced business environment can be very stressful. Increased globalization, a very diverse workforce, updated government regulations and new office technology to learn create added pressure. Nothing seems quite the same--or even predictable. Even though your firm is in a major transition (introducing new policies or procedures, shifting its direction, leadership, location, merging, personnel, markets or culture), you're expected to produce. But will work go on as usual? How can you possibly continue to do your best in the midst of such constant upheaval?
Most companies do not pay sufficient attention or time to the person performing a job. We're humans, not machines. At least in the beginning, until we have had a moment to catch our breath and get acclimated, all this change tends to affect us adversely. To successfully manage it, you must develop a different perspective, and learn new skills.
Many years ago, I designed a training seminar to help people understand the change process, identify their own unique styles for coping, and gain techniques for handling life more effectively. Next came a paperback book (which is unfortunately out-of-print) based on this workshop. Now I've taken the concepts and applied them to the situations you face every day, at work.
In Your Personal Program for Managing Change are my proven methods for managing any kind of change, whether it be organizational or personal in nature. You'll hear workers talk about mergers, company moves, restructuring, transferring abroad, switching and losing their jobs. They are each grappling with a lot of issues.
I believe that "quick-fix" attitudes don't really work. Instead, we'd do better to emphasize greater self-awareness and sensitivity to others. Here is the key to coping with life's uncertainty, to feeling empowered enough to take constructive action.
I encourage you to absorb the ideas slowly. Take notes, if you like. Think about any points that are unfamiliar to you. Apply the material to your own on-the-job problems. Share the principles with a friend. Discuss them with your colleagues. Repeated listening can be very useful, because it will reinforce what you are learning. PUBCOMMENTS. Your Personal Program for Managing Change: The Audio Tape For Working People gives you a fresh approach to dealing with today's business environment. This 34-minute audio tape will help you understand and handle periods of major transition. It includes specific suggestions on how to adapt to circumstances that may be out of your control or choice.
It is especially useful for downsizing survivors, anyone coping with career change, job loss, people resistant to new technology, or who find change difficult.
Use this tape as a personal resource or training tool. If you're a mana ger or supervisor, distribute it to employees in your area who are expected to adapt to a recent, current or impending merger, acquisition, restructuring, company move or other organizational change. And of course, make it an addition to your library.
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