From last post: First of all: Direct the Rider
Next...
- Motivate the Elephant
- Find the Feeling
- Change requires tapping the emotions. The "want to." The rider is outmatched by the elephant. The elephant must be excited about the change.
- Paint a picture. Tell stories. Get people involved so they experience the problem, the reality, the people and relationships beyond the task at hand.
- You want people to say:
- This is wrong! This is crazy!
- ...AND We can fix this!
- People then become part of the solution and move toward change.
- John Kotter notes: Change doesn't happen by 1)thinking, 2) analyzing 3) changing. Rather it is by 1) Seeing 2) Feeling then 3) Changing
- Shrink the Change
- Must be manageable change. A step.
- Make it small. Create an immediate win.
- Example - the dread of cleaning (a desk, a room, etc)...Fly Lady: 5-minute Room Rescue
- Grow the Elephant
- Create an identity that makes people feel proud.
- We love break-throughs... but don't like the thought of smashing into walls
- A fixed mindset will shy away from challenges, will be defensive to correction and will deny or be shaped negatively by failure
- A growth mindset embraces challenges, appreciates the opportunities that come from correction and accept failure as learning
- By preparing people to fail - which is always part of success - you help people to develop and live out of a growth mindset. It's normal. It's good.
