MANAGING CHANGE IN LEADERSHIP

In life the only constant thing is change. Change is an inevitable event in the history of man. Certain changes have drawn mixed reactions from individuals. Unsettling times throughout history have resulted in societal fear, panic, distress and confusion. Many people were not prepared for these changes; some reacted with suspicion, contempt and violence, others simply surrendered to the inevitability and became victims of the force of change. We live in an ever changing world.
There are two kinds of people that change not; fools and the dead. Fools won’t, dead men can’t. 
When you refuse to change you end up in chains. Your ability to manage change as a leaders determines your ability to maintain relevance and progress. Life is difficult to many people because they don’t want to change. 

As a leader, how do you manage change?

1. Anticipate Change
Expect change to come. Know that change is inevitable. Your expectation of change reduces disappointment in life. Don’t expect things to continue the same usual ways. Expect the game to change, expect the strategy will change, expect stronger competition in the market place, expect the policies will change. By this you will not be caught up in the web of surprise. 

2. Create the Change
The best thing is to be a force of change. You can always be in-charge of the change you create. In life there are three sets of people.
Those who make things happen (Change agents), those who watch things happen (spectators) and those who wonder that is happening (change Victims). 
You make things happen when you create change. If you don’t create it someone else will anyway. 
3. Monitor Change
Monitor the change that is taking place. The direction of the change and how it affect you. Keep track of the change and the stages. Relate the change to yourself, be objective and sincere. Evaluate the change and your response.

4. Give Up Somethings.
Be ready and willing to give up something for the change. Give up your old location, friends, houses, attitudes and lifestyles.  Be ready to learn new skills, take up new roles and responsibilities. Improve yourself, be willing to take up new job, new challenge new habit and new things. 

People don’t resist change, they resist being changed.
Be willing to be the one to change. 
Many time when change knocks, we feel it should be your husband, wife, colleagues, boss or friends that should change. It is easier for you to be the change than to expect another person to be it. Discern when seasons are changing

5. Adapt to change gradually.
Your first response to change should never be to resist it. Approach every change as an avenue for greater opportunity for advancement.
A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Be open to change. Let your mind be transformed. True change start from the mind. 

6. Enjoy change
Enjoy change and the process. This positive attitude helps you to get the best out of change. In order to enjoy change, you must acknowledge and accept the fact that there are some situations you cannot fully understand in life, there are some issues you cannot really explain, there are some things in life you cannot control. You cannot take responsibility for everything, you cannot do everything by yourself, there are things in life we can never change, there are things in life we cannot stop, and change is part of them. So we have got to trust God and enjoy the flow. 

7. Pray
Prayer changes things and it changes you most importantly. It is your life jacket in turbulent ocean of life. It is your anchor in stormy weather of life. Pray without season. It is my prayer that in this time of adversity you shall advance. In this moment of depressing predicament you shall see privileges. When others are saying there is a cast down you shall experience a lifting up. When others are getting poorer you shall be richer. In problems you shall see opportunities, in your crises Christ shall appear.

Juwon Owolabi 

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