{"id":591,"date":"2013-01-08T17:09:09","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T17:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.success-academy.org\/home\/?p=591"},"modified":"2013-01-08T19:28:39","modified_gmt":"2013-01-08T19:28:39","slug":"how-to-leverage-change-into-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.success-academy.org\/home\/how-to-leverage-change-into-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"How to leverage change into growth"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is incredible the speed at which everything is changing\u2026 Just when we think we’ve got\u00a0everything under control the rules change.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Some things have got easier, like using a PC where back in the 80’s you used them basically for\u00a0spreadsheets or for text documents. At this moment I am dictating straight into Word while\u00a0sat in my car and it would be simple to include a picture, some audio or a video, make it a mail\u00a0message and send it to anywhere in the world in the next few seconds.<\/p>\n

But all this comes at a price,<\/strong> both financial and in terms of time needed to learn to use the\u00a0technology. Training the voice recognition software has required time and patience (there it\u00a0goes again — as instead of has \u2013 I had to type in has!) and when the new version of Windows\u00a0comes out I’m sure I will have trouble training it again\u2026<\/p>\n

To grow we need to do things that are outside our comfort zone<\/strong> and to become good at\u00a0anything we need<\/strong> to repeat it numerous times.<\/p>\n

99% of great musicians have had to\u00a0practice\u00a0hour after hour to become not just skilled but\u00a0exceptional. The Beatles,<\/strong> between 1960 and 1962 (when they became an \u2018overnight\u2019 success),\u00a0performed 270 nights in clubs in just over a year and a half, playing live an estimated 1,200\u00a0sets.<\/strong> Occasionally there is a rare genius who can pick up an instrument and start playing\u00a0straight away but most have to learn to play their instrument and take their part in a band\u00a0or orchestra, just as in a company specific people have their own particular tasks that should\u00a0match their skills and talents.<\/strong><\/p>\n

When things change we need to stop, step back and look at our environment, see where\u00a0change might be taking us and assess whether we want to go there.<\/strong> I spent many hours\u00a0learning computer programming in COBOL – totally useless now – but it gave me an insight into\u00a0computing and how to do things patiently and methodically. The computer was always right; I\u00a0was the one that had left out the full stop.<\/strong> It has also given me confidence around technology,\u00a0made it easier to choose what I want and decide which experts I need to help me.<\/p>\n

So what do we do when our skills and talents no longer fits with the company’s needs?<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is a golden opportunity to explore other talents and perhaps use our skills in a different\u00a0way<\/strong> that will help us find a new place for ourselves.<\/p>\n

To do this we might need the help of a coach so that we progress quicker<\/strong> and explore all\u00a0options. By ourselves we could easily overvalue or undervalue some of our skills and talents\u00a0and design a non-optimized plan to reach realistic but challenging goals.
\nOnce we have found our real strengths we need to use them in doing something for which we\u00a0have passion<\/strong>, since that is our strongest potential path to greatness.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThere is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction\u201d\u00a0Winston Churchill<\/strong> (British statesman, 1874-1965)<\/p>\n

\u201cThe key to change… is to let go of fear.\u201d\u00a0Rosanne Cash<\/strong> (American singer-songwriter and author, 1955)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is incredible the speed at which everything is changing\u2026 Just when we think we’ve got\u00a0everything under control the rules change. Some things have got easier, like using a PC where back in the 80’s you used them basically for\u00a0spreadsheets or for text documents. At this moment I am dictating straight into Word while\u00a0sat in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.success-academy.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.success-academy.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.success-academy.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.success-academy.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.success-academy.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.success-academy.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":602,"href":"https:\/\/www.success-academy.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions\/602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.success-academy.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.success-academy.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.success-academy.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}