Change is hard, but it doesn't have to be if we better manage our expectations and our attitude toward change overall. After all, change is an inevitable constant, and part of developing a mindset for accepting change comes down to how one prepares for and communicates those changes.
In the workplace, the formal term for addressing change is through a process called organizational change management, where methods and strategies are deployed to help drive employees to accept and embrace change.

Organizational Change

Before launching a change management effort, you should have an established vision and an implementation plan. If not, it will be difficult to ask people to change when they don't even understand what the plan or change is. A plan with a clear vision that explains where you are, where you are going, and most importantly, what it means for participants impacted by the change is critical to get right.In providing the plan and vision, use data and tell a story to help crystallize the vision.

Provide the Vision

The success of an organizational change process is often predicated on who you start your message with. As leaders, you want to get buy-in as well as input from your key stakeholders on the plan and vision. By starting with the right audiences, you can attain strategic alignment from the onset and cascade it up and down the organization. Early buy-in can help reduce unforced errors and other unintended consequences later on, such as decreased employee morale or a loss of leadership credibility.

Who to Tell First

One of the most important aspects of organizational change management is managing expectations. This is bedrock: Too often plans are rolled out and timetables are committed to but leaders don't give those impacted a clear understanding of what will happen next.Depending on the complexity of the organizational change and the magnitude of what the change might feel like for those impacted, managing expectations is paramount. Managing expectations comes down to letting people know what is or isn't going to happen.

Manage Expectations

A pitfall some leaders make is sugarcoating the message and engaging in equivocating double talk. People deserve respect, and being straight up with people is a form of professional consideration and decency.Another important aspect of managing organizational change is recognizing that different audiences may need different information. The right level of information is key. Too much information may overwhelm, while too little may cause unneeded tension. Figure out your audiences and who needs to know what and when.

Being Clear

When delivering messages, it is important to have the right messenger -- a person who is trusted, an authority, and who can help lead the change as an effective messenger. There can be times when the wrong messenger was selected and they couldn't effectively meet the moment, which undermined the organizational change efforts. When the messenger isn't acceptable, the whole message can be discounted simply because there is an aversion to the presenter.

The Right Messenger

And at times, there can be multiple messengers for multiple audiences. As a leader, think about all the people on the team who have the necessary credibility and leverage their leadership to cascade the message. Often, people will welcome the opportunity to hear from other leaders.

Tailoring Of The Message

Some messages bear repeating, so complex organizational changes usually require multiple channels through which to communicate and then reiterate the message. You can't expect all audiences to hear or see the message the first, second, or even third time.

Rinse, Repeat, and Reinforce

Leaders need to consider all the channels they could use to convey the message -- video, email, Slack, town halls, FAQs, office hours, and newsletters -- to effectively meet staff where they typically like to receive information. <ul><li>The primary goal of a successful organizational change effort is making sure the plurality of those impacted understand what the message is and how it impacts them. </li><li>Secondly, it's getting them to take action if any is required.</li></ul>

The Bottom Line

Change is an opportunity and the outlook is the mindset.

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5 Tips in Communicating Organizational Change

In its short lifespan, Wordle has already made the tricky transition from a cult phenomenon to an established part of our daily lives.Created by a software engineer in Brooklyn for his partner in October 2021, the online word puzzle game became a global overnight success.But the game’s swift pop-culture ascendancy, which led to it getting acquired by the New York Times for upward of $1 million in January, isn’t unprecedented. In fact, 100 years before Wordle entered the scene, an even bigger word puzzle craze swept the nation: the “cross-word mania” of the 1920s.

2022: Wordle Takes Over The Internet

The modern “word-cross” appeared for the first time in print in the December 21, 1913 edition of New York World’s FUN Supplement. Section editor Arthur Wynne, trying to fill the Christmas insert, drew inspiration from his native England, where Victorian newspapers and magazines regularly published word squares, acrostic puzzles where the same words can be read both across and down.Building on this prototype, Wynne debuted FUN’s Word-Cross Puzzle.

Word Cross In the 1920s

The word-cross—which eventually became cross-word, likely due to a type-setting accident, and later dropped the hyphen to become, simply, the crossword—wasn’t supposed to be a regular feature in the weekly supplement. Wynne found the prep work tedious, and typographers resented setting up the puzzle shape for print. But players were hooked; when the word game didn’t appear one Sunday, they demanded to know where it had gone, helping ensure that game stayed on as a regular feature for FUN.

The Word Cross Becomes Crossword

The editors of FUN supplement of New York World, who were trying to fill the Christmas insert, drew inspiration from native England, where Victorian newspapers and magazines regularly published word squares, acrostic puzzles where the same words can be read both across and downThe editors also began setting the puzzles a full week ahead, proofing them for errors and establishing uniform standards like only using dictionary words for gameplay

Making Crossword Sustain Its Popularity

<ul><li>The president of the British Optical Association blamed the crossword for eye strain.</li><li>A literary debate around puzzling also raged.</li><li>Some believed it was not taken seriously.</li><li>Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh "answered in the negative" when asked if they had any crossword books</li><li>Some claimed that the working of crossword puzzles is a childish mentality.</li></ul>

The crossword faced its critics in the 1920s

In its short lifespan, Wordle has already made the tricky transition from cult phenomenon to established part of our daily lives. Created by a software

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Before Wordle, There Was Cross-Word Mania

Relationship is the fundamental truth of this world of appearance.

Relationship is what makes <a href="https://www.themarginalian.org/2017/12/08/the-songs-of-trees-david-haskell/">a forest a forest</a> and <a href="https://www.themarginalian.org/2017/02/28/undersea-rachel-carson/">an ocean an ocean</a>. To meet the world on its own terms and respect the reality of another as an expression of that world as fundamental and inalienable as your own reality is an art immensely rewarding yet immensely difficult.How to master the orientation of heart, mind, and spirit essential for the art of sincere and honorable relationship is what philosopher Martin Buber explores in his 1923 classic <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0743201337/braipick-20">I and Thou</a> — the foundation of Buber’s influential existentialist philosophy of dialogue.

Philosophy of dialogue: Relationship

<a href="https://www.themarginalian.org/2015/01/06/alan-watts-reality/">Life and Reality are not things you can have for yourself unless you accord them to all others</a>.

To the man the world is twofold, in accordance with his twofold attitude. The attitude of man is twofold, in accordance with the twofold nature of the primary words which he speaks. The primary words are not isolated words, but combined words. The one primary word is the combination I–Thou. The other primary word is the combination I–It; wherein, without a change in the primary word, one of the words He and She can replace It. Hence the I of man is also twofold. For the I of the primary word I–Thou is a different I from that of the primary word I–It.

I–It establishes the world of experience and sensation.I–Thou establishes the world of relationship, which asks of each person a participatory intimacy. Thou addresses another not as an object but as a presence.

I - Thou. I - It.

“Real isn’t how you are made… It’s a thing that happens to you.”

To address another as Thou, Buber suggests, requires a certain self-surrender that springs from inhabiting one’s own presence while at the same time stepping outside one’s self. Only then does the other cease to be a means to one’s own ends and becomes real. The primary word I–Thou can be spoken only with the whole being. Concentration and fusion into the whole being can never take place through my agency, nor can it ever take place without me. I become through my relation to the Thou; as I become I, I say Thou.

All real living is meeting

Another perspective to look into relationship:  the fundamental truth of this world of appearance. 

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I and Thou: Philosopher Martin Buber on the Art of Relationship and What Makes Us Real to One Another

Space out your appeals to humor. Some speakers try to engage in a stand-up comedy routine about their topic and then move into the serious part of the message. This too often feels disjointed or insincere. And it makes the heavier content less attractive, or at least less engaging, than the lighter content. That means your audience might miss the most important stuff because they’ve become bored with the more somber tone after a funny opening.

Timing Matters

<ul><li>Humor has a way of opening the audience up to engaging with your message for a few reasons:</li><li>It feels universal: almost everyone likes to laugh.</li><li>It feels connective: when we laugh together we remember we have things in common.</li><li>It feels safe: if we are laughing, we aren’t worried or fearful.</li></ul>When something makes us laugh, it catches our attention and invites us deeper. So every time the audience laughs together during Finley’s presentation, they feel a little more connected to each other, to him, and to his message. Which is something that all presenters desire.

Why Does Humor Work?

“Humor is a great way of engaging people, even if there is something a little sad underneath some of the pieces. Hopefully, people will find something there to think about as well.”

There's a time and place for humor, right? Sure. But let's not be too quick to dismiss the powerful role humor can play even in serious presentations.

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Using Humor Even When Talking About Tough Stuff

<ul><li>Fear is fear of an existing threat. If you have a knife to your back or a gun to your head, that is fear because there is a real and existing threat. </li><li>Anxiety is worry about the unknown which is radically different. Worry is out of your control, and the unknown is out of your control. </li></ul>These two elements are the heart of anxiety so when thinking about that upcoming presentation, you are most likely wrestling with anxiety because you worry about whether people are going to like you and your message and their reaction is all unknown at this point. It’s a classic case study in the subject of anxiet<warningtag>y.</warningtag>

Fear vs Anxiety: The Difference

<ul><li>Visualization: Visualize how you are going to be in front of the room, how the audience is going to react to you positively, and how it is going to look when you conclude your talk. This will build your confidence and make you feel as though this is the second time you have given this talk making it easier and more effortless.</li><li>Breathing: Inhale and take 4 seconds to do it. At the top of your breath, wait for 4 seconds and now exhale and take 4 seconds to do so. Now, wait for another 4 seconds at the bottom of your breath. Rinse and repeat. This will lower your heart rate and calm you down.</li></ul>

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<ol><li>Classical conditioning</li><li>Operant conditioning </li><li>Shaping</li></ol>

 3 conditioning techniques designers use to influence behavior

Classical conditioning is a subconscious association technique that pairs a neutral stimulus with a desirable stimulus to create an associated trigger. After many successive pairings throughout time, the neutral stimulus can elicit a positive response without the desirable stimulus present.Example:A user’s mobile device vibrates each time they order takeout from a food delivery app, eventually leading to an increase in orders.

Classical Conditioning

Operant conditioning is an associative learning process that guides an individual to desired behavior through the use of positive and negative reinforcement. Positive reinforcement is the addition of something that rewards or punishes an action. Negative reinforcement is the subtraction of something that rewards or punishes an action.Example:A social media app wants users to post more content.

Operant conditioning

Shaping is the reinforcement of different and successive approximations towards a targeted behavior. Employ a shaping strategy when a targeted behavior is complex or a difficult sell.Example:A VR editing app wants users to buy pre-built components.

Shaping

3 conditioning techniques designers use to influence behavior. These methods are widespread and employed in almost every successful app

This article covers 3 conditioning techniques designers use to influence behavior. These methods are widespread and employed in almost every successful app. Use with caution.

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3 techniques to influence user behavior

"The Hunger Games" has unquestionably grabbed the globe by storm, first via the novels and later through the movie. The fact that this series was aimed towards a younger audience hasn't stopped individuals of all ages, both men and women, from plunging straight into the plot. They feel a personal connection to the characters.

The Important Life Lessons We Learned From 'The Hunger Games'

She is well aware that her sister will not survive the Hunger Games. She must volunteer as a tribute to preserve her life as her older sister. In life, you must know when to hold your ground and when to yield. All partnerships center around sacrifice. This principle holds true regardless of whether they are personal friendships, familial ties, or intimate partnerships. You need to show others how important they are to you, and sacrificing on your goals and wishes demonstrates how much you respect them.

Sacrifice is the bedrock of adulthood.

At the end of the day, you are totally responsible for your own survival. You must understand what you need in order to struggle and thrive. What works for one person may not (and most likely will not) work for you. It is never a certainty to journey through life with a partner, no matter how great and reassuring it seems. The only guarantees in life are you and the information you've gathered through time.

Your existence will be ensured through self-sufficiency.

For some reason, many believe that seeking assistance is a show of weakness. This can be traced back to cultural perfectionist expectations. The assumption that you should be able to subsist solely on your own efforts is both unrealistic and useless. Having this perspective would only keep you from achieving your objectives. Examine the facts of your situation: Do you truly require assistance? Is your ego the only thing keeping you from asking for help? No matter how self-conscious you are about asking for help, it is occasionally required.

There’s nothing wrong with getting a little bit of help.

This lesson will help you guide to the right path of your path just like Katniss and Peeta did

"The Hunger Games" has undeniably taken the world by storm, first by the novels and then by the films. The fact that this series targeted a younger audience has not deterred people of all ages, both men and women, from diving right into the…

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Every act you have performed since the day you have born was performed because you wanted something . How about the time you gave large contribution to needy people ?If you hadn't wanted the feeling more than you wanted your money, you would not have made contribution.

Find The Want..?

Personally i love 🍓 & cream , but i have found that for some reason, fish prefer worms. So when i went to fishing, i didn't think about what i want. I thought about what they want. I didn't bait the hook with strawberry. Rather i dangled a worm ..why not use the same common sense when fishing for people?

Choose Correct Bait

" If there is any one secret of success," It lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own."

Before you speak , pause and ask yourself, " how can i make this person to do it ? "That question will stop us from rushing into a situation heedlessly, with futile chatter ( unnecessary formal talk ) about our own desires.

Before You Speak 

The world is full of people who are grabbing and self seeking, so the rare individual who unselfishly tries to serve other has an enormous advantage.People who can understand working mind of others need not worry about future ...So try to put yourself in place of other to win them easily..

Are You A Rare Individual ?

The only way on earth to influence people is to talk about what they want and show them how to get it .First ,arouse in other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way.

Are You A Influential Person ?

“self-expression is the dominant necessity of human nature.”Why can't we adapt this same psychology to business dealings? When we have a brilliant idea, instead of making others think it is ours, why not let them cook and stir the idea themselves They will then regard it as their own , they will like it and work with full involvement.

Arouse In Other Person An Eager Want

Chapter 3 How to influence people and friends 

Understand yourself and those around you.

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You don’t talk about these ideas, because you’ve never put them into words. They’re just gut feelings.
Turning gut feelings into tools means understanding their origin, limits, and how they interact with other ideas. Which requires turning them into words.

We're full of ideas we’re not aware of

And it does that in ways thinking on its own will never accomplish.It’s difficult to focus on a topic in our heads for more than a few seconds without getting distracted by another thought, and distractions erase whatever we attempted to think about. But words on paper stick. They aren’t washed away by the agitator in our heads.

Writing crystallizes ideas

Sometimes writing is encouraging. You realize you understand a topic better than you thought. The process flushes out all kinds of other ideas you never knew you had hiding upstairs. Now you can apply those insights elsewhere.Other times it’s painful. Forcing the logic of your thoughts into words can uncover the flaws and biases of your ideas. Seeing the words on paper looks ridiculous. Things the mind tends to gloss over the pen tends to highlight.

Putting ideas on paper

Some of the things I think I think, I find don’t make any sense when I start trying to write them down. You ought to be able to explain why you’re taking the job you’re taking, why you’re making the investment you’re making, or whatever it may be. And if it can’t stand applying pencil to paper, you’d better think it through some more.

Writers don’t know exactly what they’ll write about until they start writing, because the process crystallizes the fuzzy ideas we all have floating around. This is probably why writing is intimidating for some people. They don’t think they can write because, in their head, they don’t know what they’d write about. But hardly anyone does.

Where do your ideas come from?

Everyone should write. You know why? Because everyone is full of ideas they’re not aware of. You don’t talk about these ideas, even in your own head, because you’ve never put them into words. They’re gut feelings. Intuitions. You use them a dozen times a day. But you’d shrug your shoulders if someone asked why. How you react to career risk. Why you invest the way you do. Why you like some people and question others. We’re all brimming with opinions on these topics that we may never discuss, even with ourselves. Like phantom intelligence. Intuition is strong enough to put these ideas into practice. But intuition isn’t a tool; it’s a safety net at best, and is more often the fuel of biased decisions. Turning gut feelings into tools means understanding their origin, limits, and how they interact with other ideas. Which requires turning them into words. And writing is the best way to do that. Writing crystallizes ideas in ways thinking on its own will never accomplish. The reason is simple: It’s hard to focus on a topic in your head for more than a few seconds without getting distracted by another thought, and distractions erase whatever you attempted to think about. But words on paper stick. They aren’t washed away by the agitator in your head who won’t shut up about the tone of an email someone just sent you. You might be able to hold focus just briefly in your head, but a sentence on paper has all the patience in the world, waiting for you to return whenever you’re ready. It’s hard to overemphasize how important this is. Putting ideas on paper is the best way to organize them in one place, and getting everything in one place is essential to understanding ideas as more than the gut reactions they often hide as. Take four questions: What is your edge over competitors? How do you react to unforeseen risk? What have you changed your mind about recently? What part of your job are you not good at? These are vital questions that most of us, if asked on the spot, couldn’t answer well. Not because we haven’t thought about them; we certainly have. But the thoughts are probably vague, unsubstantiated, or pure emotions. Many people’s response to the first question would be an uncomfortable pause, a ponder, and a lump in the throat. Which says a lot, just not in words. It’s not until you put thoughts on paper that everything from ignorance to denial to unfulfilled potential is viewed in the raw, ready to be analyzed. Sometimes writing is encouraging. You realize you understand a topic better than you thought. The process flushes out all kinds of other ideas you never knew you had hiding upstairs. Now you can apply those insights elsewhere. Other times it’s painful. Forcing the logic of your thoughts into words can uncover the madness of your ideas. The holes. The flaws. The biases. Thinking “I want this job because it pays a lot of money” is bearable. Seeing the words on paper looks ridiculous. Things the mind tends to gloss over the pen tends to highlight. Warren Buffett once said: Some of the things I think I think, I find don’t make any sense when I start trying to write them down. You ought to be able to explain why you’re taking the job you’re taking, why you’re making the investment you’re making, or whatever it may be. And if it can’t stand applying pencil to paper, you’d better think it through some more. A common question people ask professional writers is, “Where do you get your ideas?” A common answer is, “From writing.” Writers don’t know exactly what they’ll write about until they start writing, because the process crystallizes the fuzzy ideas we all have floating around. This chicken-and-egg problem is probably why writing is intimidating for some people. They don’t think they can write because – in their head, as this moment – they don’t know what they’d write about. But hardly anyone does. So, write. A journal. A business manifesto. An investment plan. You don’t have to publish it. It’s the process that matters. You’ll uncover so much you never knew.

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Why Everyone Should Write

For a company with staff all over the world, sharing documentation typically makes more sense than aligning schedules for a video conference.But when something’s not clicking, people just aren’t agreeing with whatever you’re trying to decide, it’s a great time to hop onto a meeting. The key is to avoid making meetings the default option for your communication needs. Instead, they should be used sparingly, and only when the desired outcome justifies their use.

Hold meetings for the right reasons

Great meetings begin with an icebreaker to get the participants feeling grounded and comfortable with one another. For example, lead your audience through a quick exercise on a Miro board, inviting them to match their mood to a spot on an emotions wheel.

If you do have to hold a meeting, start with an icebreaker

People are always looking for value in any sort of dialogue. Identify their wants and needs and appeal to them as best you can while remembering your own purpose. Reading the situation this way will help you figure out how to best communicate—for example, whether the situation calls for more yes/no questions or more open-ended inquiries.

Know the value your fellow collaborators are looking for

Good documentation is the bedrock of any modern workplace, particularly when the staff is far-flung. And you’ll want everyone to feel empowered to serve as a documentarian.Screen for that from the very beginning, from the hiring process.

Hire for and hone people’s writing skills

If your job requires cross-cultural collaboration, stop using idioms.A few terms commonly used in American business that do not translate easily for non-native English speakers:<ul><li>Bring our A-game</li><li>Come up for air</li><li>Cut and dry</li><li>Level the playing field</li><li>Off the top of my head</li><li>Zero in on</li><li>Get ahead of the curve</li><li>Put out some feelers.</li></ul>Replace them with a single word

Stick to “global English”

Collaboration has been a corporate buzzword for at least a decade, but even those who have mastered it have had to rethink their approaches at companies that are now largely remote or hybrid.

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How to be a better collaborator in a distributed-workforce world

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