Welcome to our Conversation about Change - with Stephen Gribben and Warren Hammond.

Change is a big topic - but it is something we all know is happening around us, to us, by us all of the time.  Stephen explains the benefits of using Change to build a better outcome for yourself.  It's a big topic and we cover a lot.  Let us know what you think at podcast@coachpro.online.  Some notes from the episode are below - Enjoy.

Notes from the Podcast:

Change can be a good thing – Progress is change.  Disruption is the big brother in the change family – and adjusting is the little one.  Change is all around us – but how to make sure we are changing for the better.

"Change is neither a good thing or a bad thing, it's a thing. And depending on what you change, why you change, and then importantly, how you change things, will determine whether that changes it for the better or not".

Things will change and either you do it or somebody else does it for you.  Or to you.

Sometimes, you're just sleepwalking into change -  there was no conscious point of realising you're going through change.  And then you get really good at managing how change happens to you.

What I will say to people about change is change can be an absolutely fantastic and essential thing. If you change the right things, for the right reasons, and the right way.

Change is a continuous thing. It is happening around you. And maybe you're not seeing it, but it's going on.

3 boxes/approaches model

1. First one: Deny it.  Pretend it doesn't affect you.
2. Second:  Fight it – resist it and search for alternatives.  Or
3. Third: Use it - how can I channel this? How can I see this as an opportunity?

The great thing about change is that nothing bad is going to last forever. At the same time you know that nothing good is going to last forever.

When companies have to launch a transformation programme, that's just a public admission, they haven't been changing as much as they should have been doing on an ongoing basis.

Change doesn't have to be painful. But if you've not been to the gym for a while, and you're trying to do something that you've not trained for – you’re going to feel pain.  What you know is that pain was always going to be there. But you either spread it out or you do in a big bang.

It shouldn’t be something you get through or something you complete, rather than it being a continual process of improvement

Some businesses view on Change seems to be more a wedding day rather than a marriage

If you still want to be the parent that you are today, you're gonna have to redefine that relationship to still be the same parent in five or 10 years

Healthy Dissatisfaction x Strong Vision x Clear First Step > Resistance to Change

Startups tend to be more disruptive because they've just got less resistance to change, because they don't really have much to protect at that point.

Change is not an event. Change is an ongoing process. And therefore, it's making sure that you've got the percentages of things in the right order to make sure that continual change can be successful. Try to change 100%, it's just going to break. And the likelihood is that you end up with a poor version of what you already had.

80-16-4: For successful change to happen, the first 80% must stay the same. The next 16% must also stay the same, but that can be better, faster, different. And then that allows for 4% to be new.

Don’t get pace and scale confused.  If you want to make 100% new, do 4% new every hour by tomorrow and then it'll be 100% different.  For successful change, you need 80% to stay the same for now. So there might be some things that you're going to want to change. But, for now, they need to stay the same.

The communication of Change should start from what must stay the same. Otherwise, when you talk about the thing that is new, no one hears the rest. Because they're into an emotional place of I like or I don't like and they don't hear the rest.

The thing I would ask everybody to do is get on the journey with Change. And if the thing that's holding you back is the fear of losing or leaving stuff behind, take it with you. But get on the journey. Go and discover. Otherwise you can sit back and wait to someone tells you what they think is good enough for you.

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