Reality Check: Acknowledging the Complexity of Real Work Here are a couple of observations to help you pursue the action strategies weve outlined above. Keeping these in mind can add precision and power to your use of this change model. 1. We are never facing just one change. If you look at the collection of changes that you or your group is facing at any given time, you could probably fill the Four Room Apartment to the ceiling with activity that would locate you in every room a few times over. There are a couple of ways to handle that. You could look at the total -- look at the sum of all the changes you are facing -- and locate yourself in one room or another and seek ways to act accordingly. Or you could map all the changes in all the rooms, and mark a certain number of those that you can engage while keeping the apartment livable -- that is, maintaining your balance and keeping your best skills in play. Then you could strategize about each of those marked items according to which room its in. This is really what strategic planning gets at (and notice that strategic planning aims to exploit renewal and contentment as well as the more tangled rooms). 2. Each of us moves through the rooms somewhat differently. Weisbord does some wonderful work integrating Janssens work with that of others, and part of what emerges is his hypothesis that we might describe people as doing the Four Room tour in one of two ways: either spending most of their time on the left-hand side of the apartment (Contentment and Denial) or on the right-hand side (Confusion and Renewal). Some people tend to see everything as going well no matter what, and they will refuse change demands with a large reservoir of denial energy. Once they tip through Denial, however, they seem to fly through Confusion and Renewal and come to rest again in Contentment. Their counterparts represent a more restless breed, easily moved off Contentment, sliding briefly through Denial, then wallowing in Confusion until some big bang connects them to the next new thing. The main point of course is that people and groups do respond uniquely in touring the apartment of change, and that may vary by change as well as disposition.
Posted on: Fri, 08 Aug 2014 18:13:48 +0000
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