1

Identifying the causes of change

• Define the change within the company and its impact on business.
• Identify the factors that drive change: technology, strategy, culture, etc.
• Distinguish between the different types of change: adjustment, reform, restructuring and rebuilding.

2

Understanding the impacts of change on your professional efficiency

• Change: voluntary or endured.
• Representations of change: between willingness, resistance and acceptance.
• The stress inherent in any change.
• Possible behaviours.
• Factors at play in resistance to change.

3

Understanding the steps involved in adjusting to change

• Identify the stages of change.
• Determine the costs and benefits of the change.
• Use the change to drive progress.
• Identify the effects of failure to adjust to change.
• Be able to challenge yourself and put the past behind you. Understand the grieving process.

4

Removing the barriers that prevent you from adapting to change

• Recognise and overcome cognitive and behavioural barriers that prevent adaptation.
• Master the process of “letting go”.
• Challenge yourself constructively.
• Be daring and let your imagination run wild.
• Accept failures and transform thoughts and emotions into actions.
• Change inaccurate perceptions and self-esteem.
• Expand on spontaneous thoughts. Learn about the most common cognitive distortions.
• The grid for confronting beliefs.

5

Making adaptation to change a reality

• Encourage adaptation by anticipating the benefits.
• Set goals and objectives for progress.
• Acquire the necessary resources for adapting effectively.
• Set development deadlines.
• Evaluate the results.