November 2019 - The Change Gym

About The Change Gym

2019-11-27T10:29:19+10:00By Steve Barlow|Categories: Uncategorized|

We are a team of change specialists helping organisations and individuals build more capacity to succeed at the change process. For your organisation to become more agile and successful at change, you should develop your change readiness.Change readiness is a major factor in the success or failure of change projects. It influences how much engagement or resistance you encounter and whether you are likely to be successful. Change readiness has an inner and outer dimension. The inner refers to the psychological [...]

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Change: The Learning Zone

2019-11-15T13:59:07+10:00By Steve Barlow|Categories: Change Fitness, Coaching, Programs|

In a previous article, I made the claim that humans are hard-wired for change. My argument there was that, since we have managed to survive and thrive in virtually every ecological niche on the planet (or at least in a diverse range of ecological niches), we are, as a species, very adaptable and not only adaptable but also able to adapt the environment to suit our purposes. Since this is arguably true of modern humans in general, it is logical [...]

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Debunking a Popular Myth: the Kubler-Ross Model of Change

2022-02-13T12:43:07+10:00By Steve Barlow|Categories: Change Fitness|

The Kubler-Ross Model (of Change)Many people are familiar with the Kubler-Ross model. This model is often cited as a description of how change works – a model of change, if you will. It is commonly used in business circles to show how people in organisations react to change. However, before we embrace the model, we should understand where it came from. It came from the work of Elizabeth Kubler-Ross. She was a medical doctor who helped people who were dying.What [...]

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Live Training

2021-10-25T08:45:51+10:00By Steve Barlow|Categories: Uncategorized|

LIVE TRAINING RESISTANCE TO READINESS This live 1-day training is delivered online or onsite. Discover why resistance to change occurs and how you can turn resistance into readiness. Build engagement and succeed at change. LEARN MORE >> APPLYING CHANGE READINESS This live 1-day training is delivered online or onsite. This training follows on from Resistance to Readiness and examines a practical change readiness model and tools to make it work.

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Have You Gone Viral Yet?

2019-11-05T16:39:05+10:00By Steve Barlow|Categories: General|

I remember the first time I heard the concept of going viral. An associate told me that you create a piece of content, put it on a social media platform, and wait for it to go viral. It sounded intriguing at the time, and straightforward. Well, I’m still waiting.When it comes to social media advice, there’s no shortage of ‘experts’ telling us how to make social media work in our business. There are literally millions of people trying to get [...]

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You Need a Strategy

2019-11-02T17:00:54+10:00By Steve Barlow|Categories: General|

Swiss adventurer, psychiatrist, and author, Bertrand Piccard, makes a very interesting observation about how most people approach life. He says, “To construct our life, we’re going to need to learn some strategies, but in reality, what we learn instead are visions of the world.”He claims that most of us don’t figure out the strategies we need to achieve our dreams, but we do figure out how we see the world. That’s quite sad when you think about it. Most people [...]

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What We Do

2019-12-04T18:13:59+10:00By Steve Barlow|Categories: Change Fitness, Change Readiness, The Change Gym|

Growing Success We help organisations and individuals become more successful at change. We do this by developing their capacity to succeed at the change process, helping them get ready for change, and by providing actionable change management processes.If you can't change, you get stuck. If you're not agile and adaptable, you can't be competitive. If you're not change fit, you're not ready for the opportunities of the future. Personal Change Fitness Change fitness is a psychological concept that refers to [...]

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