Tuesday, August 17, 2010

The Process We Call Change

By Rolo B. Cena
Arabian Diaries
Dumaguete Star Informer
03 January 2010

Through the years, I have always sustained the momentum of gradually reaching the summit of maintaining my professional and societal position. Although it was not always an easy job, but I would like to believe that my performance was always remarkable – at least as per my standard.

By my own key performance indicators, I also believe that I have done my best and my hardest through the years. Although my best maybe wasn’t good and my hardest not tough enough to some people or to some extent, but surely it was real and it was not just happening.

My most recent familial and professional crises gave me the most opportune time to retrospect and maximize our strengths, improve on and turn our weaknesses into motivating factors, explore the opportunities at hand, and prepare to tactically address the threats along the way. It gave me and my family enough latitude to move around and take off to the higher altitude; the same latitude that sustain us through the years.

This clearly suggests that the world around us is obviously volatile; everything is a flux. Having said that, we need to equip ourselves with the logistics we need to prepare for the coming years: workable plans and targets, dynamic support system and available resources, and feasible alternative courses of action. And these can only be done by evaluating the present condition and introduce aggressive change drivers.

Change initiatives are always available 24/7. The thing is, some facts usually overshadow the others that cause to blind people from seeing and acknowledging these initiatives. Consequently, this leads them to concentrate on knowing all the “what’s” without examining the “why’s” to determine the “how’s” of the issue. People sometimes become immobile because of their own insensitivity.

Change connotes defect. Surely, we cannot change one thing if it is within its norms. What most of us do is ignore the defect until this has become worse, or, to some degree, blown out of proportion. In which case, remedial activities may no longer help. As we detect the defect at its earliest, change should be instituted.

Change drivers are supposed to propel us to improvement. However, change process can only take place if we admit and recognize the defect otherwise it would be hard to institute and implement change drivers.

As we close 2009, we need to evaluate our personal and professional performances carefully noting down these defects. As we welcome 2010, we need to inculcate into ourselves the change processes we need to implement to better our position in the new year and in the coming years and to once again place ourselves more strategically in the map where we could shine once more.

As Mahatma Gandhi strongly advocated, “Be the change you want the world to be.”

Carry on, Gentlemen!

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