Deep change comes with Experience (Newer waste a good crisis)
Since being married with a psychotherapist, I always have been very open to the concepts and influence of human interaction and the concept of positive psychology. While I always have been 'mindful' in different ways, I started to dig deeper tow years ago. I started to adopt slowly different techniques and specific methods. I also started a journey of not keeping my inner world (value and believes) and outer world (my own career and my private life) separated.
Two years ago I've met MayaWeber during a full-day assessment, I had to conduct. ,She has become a mentor since then. Not only that – we had meetings, which inspired both of us, on what's going on in the tech and financial industry and about deep change. Deep change – that must come from within.
Probably one year later, I have been very surprised, when I realized, that 'Mindfulness'' appeared on a big screen at the entrance of our company. Could it really be? Methods emerging from the world of psychology to the corporate world? Articles about Self Reflection in Business Magazines?
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So far - so good. Then COVID and the lockdown came and I – as probably we all – reflected on many different aspects on our personal lives. The crisis made it an imperative to all of us, to adapt the change in a very fast manner - we all experienced a completely new situation: Working from home suddenly turned out to be real, there is little doubt left, it's for lazy employees only - Digitalization has been pushed to the limits - Act swiftly, implement and launch a product within a single week - Get FAQ's sorted and distributed through a 'raw' tool over a weekend. We all pushed 'the new way of working' to the next level. The big difference: We not only heard about 'change and transformation initiatives', we all had been part of a huge and fast paced transformation - taking decisions, but more important acquired experience of a tremendous change to a new normal. The Corona Crisis is easing down, where I live. The disruptive change and our remediation action may require slight re-adjustments, but the disruptive change will remain and influences our way of working going forward. We acquired new knowledge, applied the knowledge in a certain context - transformed it to skills and acquired experience within weeks. |
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We conducted different steps on our journey:
'Never waste a good crisis' means to learn from our experience gained during the time of Corona, but we need to make it habit beyond Corona: Get smarter – instead of working harder. Let's come back to the intro on positive psychology and what you can learn out of it? If you form these 6 bullets and 6A's to a circle you have a potential way to adopt Self Reflection. |
The Circle of the 6A on self-reflection is one potential way to start your journey – but I rather encourage you to find your own personal way: Find the book, author or methods that resonate with you. It could be a start, by searching the web using 'positive psychology', 'mindfulness', 'coaching' or 'self-reflection'. If you think, you stumble on many too 'esoteric' websites; you may consider combining the previous words with 'agile', 'executive' or 'professional'.
Be encouraged to start your own journey. Share your Experience and Feedback.