Session 5: How to Create Lasting Change

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BUILDING PERSONAL AND LASTING CHANGE

THE ODDS ARE THAT YOU WILL FAIL AT BOTH CORPORATE AND PERSONAL CHANGE

A paper by Harvard Business Review (“Change Management Needs to Change”, Ron Ashkenas: 2013) showed the failure rate for corporate change is 60-70%.

Think about it…

Most of our efforts to enact positive organisational change in our sphere of influence will fail. This is despite the enormous investment in tools, training, experts, leadership support, and countless books that have been written on the subject.

Sadly, it’s not any better on a personal level. • 80% of New Year’s resolutions fail within the first month.

• Only an estimated 8% see through on their intentions by the end of the year.

Why is it that so few of us change for the better?

WE’VE BEEN TAUGHT THE WRONG THING The reality is that many of us want to see change in our lives.

Few of us want to show up, simply playing history on repeat. But, consider this:

IF – we want a different outcome. THEN – we must show up differently. ANYTHING LESS = INSANITY (Doing the same thing yet expecting a different result).

The adage “If you at first don’t succeed; try, try again”, is baloney. Success doesn’t happen when we “fail and try, try again.”

Success happens when we “try, fail, adjust, try, fail, adjust” and repeat this process of continuous improvement until we achieve a breakthrough.