Hello, thank you for joining me. We're here to talk about living with change. This idea of being more intentional about living with change has become a critically important survival skill for all of us as we try to deal with and ideally learn how to thrive on all of the changes that we face throughout our lives. My name is Chris edge. Hello, that's me here in my office talking to you wherever you are, you take this course. I'm with two different organizations Sundance consulting, consulting firm and last week press which is a publishing business.

I spent the last three decades of my career helping people in organizations change client base that literally is around the world. And it includes all three sectors, corporate government and not for profit. And it ranges from large global multinational organizations with 10s of thousands of employees down to small local, not for profit organizations with in some cases under 100 employees. In those organizations, I've worked with hundreds of executives and many, many, many hundreds of managers at all levels, and 10s of thousands of employees. The one constant throughout all of my projects is something's changing. And it's usually something major, it's often many major changes, and it's not necessarily going smoothly, things are challenging.

I've got a graduate degree in applied behavioral sciences where I learned both the art and the science behind systems leadership and change. So I've been able to draw on existing theories and develop some of my own ideas around helping people change I've written and published a number of resources. And like most people, I've dealt with many major changes in my own life over the years. And sometimes I learned from my mistakes and other times, I've been fortunate enough to apply some of the ideas that I've learned. And they really helped. I put together some resources that will help you get the most out of this course, two of the most important ones and I encourage you to print them off, there's a set of slides that will have all of what you see on the screen in front of you.

I don't want you to worry about taking notes, I want to give you all the information so there it is. More importantly, and perhaps the most important resource will be these worksheets. So I would encourage you to print them off one page at a time one page per worksheet, and I'm going to ask you periodic times during this workshop to stop the program and put a pencil in your hand and do some things on this particular worksheet. They become explanatory very quickly as I get to each particular worksheet but It's an opportunity for you to start to use some of the ideas that I'm sharing right in the moment. So you'll find those helpful. I also put together an article called making space with change that you might also find helpful.

There's a whole other set of resources I'd like you to consider here. Got a number of colleagues at work that may well be neck deep in the same changes that you yourself are dealing with. So it might be a good idea to take this course with a few people you work with, or better yet, even your whole team. That way, you can stop this program at any point in time, and discuss what those ideas that I'm sharing have to do with you and how you might be able to apply them in your work environment. You also might find that you've got other resources in terms of people at home, so it could be significant other could be good friend, whatever it might be. So you've we're all in this together.

So We've got lots of resources that can be helpful to each other number of objectives for our time together, this is all relatively straightforward. I want to help us to understand what's going on right now that's creating the change that we're dealing with in our lives. So we're in a unique period of history right now. So I'd like to share some ideas around a global pace of change the organizational context and pace of change. And what that means to us personally, I'd like to explore how change impacts us and to determine how we can effectively learn how to thrive on change. You may have already figured this out.

But in an organization, you don't have much control over the change who didn't get a vote, you probably didn't even get asked for the one or two. You are being told to to change somebody makes an idea it's implemented and bam, there it is. You have to do something different. Now, that may sound a little harsh, but it's usually almost 100% of the time true. So when we don't have much control over the change itself, we do have 100% control over the transition. So I'd like to start that conversation by clarifying the difference between change and transition.

And then we're going to develop a personal transition plan, or maybe a collective transition plan. If you're doing this course with a number of colleagues or your entire team, for the current organizational changes that you're all dealing with. Then we're going to develop some change maps, and transition maps to determine where we are on our change journey, and finish a plan that we will be developing throughout our time together, that will help you keep moving forward in good shape, the flow of our conversation. This introduction is going to be over in a couple seconds. Then we're going to talk about the context of global organizational and personal change. Then we're going to talk about how change impacts us and what we can do to take better care of ourselves.

Assess our resiliency and figure out how we can improve that. We'll explore the difference between change and transition. We'll talk a little bit about resistance and resonance or baggage as well. We're going to develop a transition plan to take control over the transition that we're struggling through as it relates to all of the changes at work these days. Then we're going to put together a little bag of survival skills in terms of simply living with change, draw out a little bit of a map in terms of where we are in transition with all of those changes, and then finish off our action plan. So that's the flow.

Again, thank you for joining me