The amount and pace of transformation around us is overwhelming. Change is the new normal. According to scientists we are living in a VUCA world; one that is heavily impacted by increasing levels of volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity. Yet, even if we see the benefit and understand the need for change and although we have the knowledge, skills and resources to act accordingly, we regularly fail to adopt and take necessary actions.
Source: The Pig Site, March 17, 2017.
Being successful in fulfilling your needs can reduce the open-mindedness and willingness to change. Behavioral routines and patterns are created that on the long-term can limit our development and growth opportunities and keep us in our comfort-zones. Changing behavior in practice therefore is less a question of knowledge or skills, but a question of mindset and awareness. The clearer we are about conscious and sub-conscious mechanisms preventing us from changing behavior the better we can deal with them.