How Can Change Be Effectively Implemented?

This week we are exploring the idea of how we compare things around us, adapt to change, as well as the rate at which we prefer change in a specific area of our life. Knowing your own, or someone else’s pattern for change will guide you to the easiest path in effectively and gracefully bringing about any revisions. Pinpointing this ‘meta-program’ will bring great insight into the inner workings of a person, group or organization.

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Do you Focus your own Experience or the Non-verbals of Others?

When you want to deepen rapport and understanding with someone, make an effort to notice the direction that their attention goes during conversation. Do they respond with appropriate head nods and cues to your non-verbal communication in an animated way? Or do they seem to only hear the content of what you are saying with very little expression?

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What Moves Us to Take Action?

What motivates you to move ahead? Or, do you prefer to wait and gather information from others before acting? When learning about what motivates us (or others) to take action, it is very helpful to determine the typically unconscious pattern or Meta Program that gets us to move ahead.

As always with Meta Programs, how we move into action will change depending on the situation we are in. Often in more familiar settings we may be more inclined to be proactive given there is a different level of safety. In another context, not knowing how the other people around us may operate, we might be much more reactive.

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