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  • 1.  Managing Individual Change

    Posted 03-15-2008 23:55

    Fellow members,

     

    I am looking for models that will help senior executive coaching and training clients to frame and effectively manage changes to their roles or to their careers, e.g. through being promoted. William Bridges' model on transitions is one example. From the clinical literature Kubler-Ross' work is another. I'm wondering if anyone on the list has suggestions of other personal change/transition models that might be useful in organizational contexts.

     

    Thanks so much,

     

    Sue

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    Susan David, Ph.D.

    Health, Emotions and Behavior Laboratory

    Department of Psychology

    Yale University

     

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  • 2.  Managing Individual Change

    Posted 03-16-2008 12:00

    Hi Sue,

     

    I use constantly and highly recommend Mike Driver's and Ken Brousseau's research on Career Concepts (Linears, Steady State Experts, Spirals, and Transitories-slides attached).  As well as Gene Dalton and Paul Thompson's Org Dynamics article on The Four Stages of Professional Careers.  When you mix those two, you get a very powerful way of framing progression for all, and different definitions of success that explain many phenomenon that in my experience executive participants have seen but don't explain well.  The Dalton, Thompson, and Price model also includes a discussion of the psychological challenges that people face at each stage.  For example, going from IC to MGR the challenge of learning to become responsible for other people's work whereas most IC's believe that if you want it done right, do it yourself.

     

    Regards...

     

       Jim

    James G. S. Clawson

    Johnson & Higgins Professor of Business Administration

    Darden GSB, University of Virginia

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    Fellow members,

     

    I am looking for models that will help senior executive coaching and training clients to frame and effectively manage changes to their roles or to their careers, e.g. through being promoted. William Bridges' model on transitions is one example. From the clinical literature Kubler-Ross' work is another. I'm wondering if anyone on the list has suggestions of other personal change/transition models that might be useful in organizational contexts.

     

    Thanks so much,

     

    Sue

    ______________________________________

    Susan David, Ph.D.

    Health, Emotions and Behavior Laboratory

    Department of Psychology

    Yale University

     

    PO Box 382206

    Harvard Square

    Cambridge MA 02238

    USA

     

    T: 617 335 7335

    E: susan.david@yale.edu

     

     



  • 3.  Managing Individual Change

    Posted 03-18-2008 17:35
    IN RESPONSE TO:

    ---------- Forwarded message ----------
    From: Susan David <sdavid@SENT.COM>
    Subject: Managing Individual Change

    I am looking for models that will help senior executive coaching and
    training clients to frame and effectively manage changes to their roles or
    to their careers, e.g. through being promoted....

    I RECEIVED THE FOLLOWING FROM AUTHOR JIM CLEMMER (in response to my
    query about this):

    ---------- Forwarded message ----------
    Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:51:45 -0400
    From: Jim Clemmer <jim.clemmer@clemmer.net>
    To: 'John Michela' <jmichela@watarts.uwaterloo.ca>
    Subject: RE: Managing Individual Change (fwd)


    The very model that fits exactly what Sue is asking about is also an item
    in my April issue of The Leader <http://www.clemmer.net/newsletter>
    Letter. I've copied that section of the upcoming newsletter for you to
    pull out whatever you feel might be relevant.

    www.clemmer.net <http://www.clemmer.net/>


    Choosing to be a Navigator, Survivor, or Victim

    "Can you tell me which of your books covers/explains the Victim, Navigator
    and Survivor change choices?"

    Nancy



    Hi Nancy,



    This simple model continues to be one of the most popular and commented upon
    parts of my keynotes and workshops. It connects both personally and
    professionally with so many people from all levels of every organization.

    The Leader <http://www.clemmer.net/books/tld.aspx>'s Digest touches briefly
    on this discussion in the Responsibility for Choices chapter. There is a
    fairly large section with assessment and application exercises (supported by
    my slides and audio track) in the Responsibility for Choices chapter of
    Growing the Distance: <http://www.clemmer.net/books/gtd_selfstudy.aspx>
    Self-Study System. Moose on the Table: A Novel Approach to
    <http://www.mooseonthetable.com/> Communications @ Work uses this model
    very directly and refers to it throughout the book. Victim behavior is
    illustrated in Chapter Three with the Pete Leonard - the fictional manager -
    and his peers stuck in "Pity City" at Rocky and Bullwinkle's bar. The
    model/approach is introduced and explained in Chapter Four.

    My most complete article on this approach is Navigating
    <http://www.clemmer.net/articles/Change_choice_navigator_survivor_victims.as
    px> Change and Adversity. You can also find a video clip of me explaining
    the model/approach on our site at http://www.clemmer.net/video (the second
    clip; "Navigating Change and Adversity").

    I hope that helps!

    Jim



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