I Didn't Sign Up for This! Dealing with Constant Change in Small Businesses

Won’t it stop?! Today’s increasing pace of change can create a work life that mirrors the experience of standing on the baseline at a tennis court and having your opponent fire balls from a tennis cannon at you. This type of change seems constant; before you can assimilate one change another comes along. The phenomenon has become known as “Repetitive Change Syndrome (RCS).” Moving through change, and leading in times of change, takes time and energy. It’s extremely stressful. In “I Didn’t Sign On For This! Dealing With Constant Change In Business,” you will learn: - How to recognize the change effects on you and the organization - Why we resist change and how to lower resistance - How to more easily embrace and work within the change - How to use practical time and management strategies to better deal with the stress of change - How to move on to the new reality The style of presentation is highly interactive, lighthearted and fast-paced. Attendees often comment that they had a lot of “Aha!” moments and frequently say, “I needed this right now in my life . . . and for more than just work.” Change isn’t going to slow down; if anything, it’s going to speed up. Accepting and addressing change isn’t complicated it’s just hard; this program makes it simpler.

Speaker(s): Mike Collins is the president of The Perfect Workday Company and author of The Perfect Workday. He has presented 2,000+ seminars for small businesses and organizations ranging from The American Academy of Family Physicians to the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School. He is a member of the adjunct faculty at the Gillings School of Global Public Health at UNC-Chapel Hill.

Co-Sponsor(s): Eastern NC Center for Business and Entrepreneurship at NC Wesleyan College

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Fee: No Cost