Readiness for Change...

Are you an employee ready to change? Employees are more open to support change if they are ready to make changes. This means that they believe in the changes, have the time and energy to invest in the changes, and your organization is ready to support the changes.

Once, a Manager sent an email asking about how his staff felt about starting a continuous improvement process. The immediate response from several who have real world experience, was that the organization was not ready for such a process. They’re right. The company is making the transition from tactical to strategic and that is taking up all of the available energy.

You can assess the readiness of your organization to participate in change, too. How..???

Answer questions such as these. What is the level of trust within your organization? Do people feel generally positive about their work environment. Do you have a history of open communication? Do you share financial information?

These factors have a tremendous impact on people’s acceptance of and willingness to change. If you can start building this positive and supportive environment prior to the change, you have a great head start on the change implementation.

People in general feel very disturbed and scared from changes in their life and as a job in a company for most of us take over 40% of our lives, the right way to implement changes should be starting with awarness of the employees.

But how to raise the awarnesses of employees?? What I have learn until now in my experience are the followings tips:

- Spreading the group charter of corporate behavior, do it through manuals, informations, communications and adapt every single message it is coming from top to down and viceversa to them.

- Compliance Education, there are a lot of things which we do in our routine but we even don't know why we do them... imagine when it comes to change those routine with other brand new routine... People that doesnt't know about the meaning of the previous should adapt to the new... it sounds very funny, but in most of the corporation today it is like this. If you wanna mke differently, be sure that the level of education is kept high.

- Dialogue level, how much intense is the dialogue between the people in the herarchy?? Coaching, Mentorship, Counseling and Climate initiative are in place?

At the end of the day we can call all those basic steps I have mentioned, Total Quality Management....

I've got white hair...

Have you ever watched someone try to cover up white hair by dyeing it? Or maybe you wonder why your granddad has a full head of silver hair when in old pictures it used to be dark brown? Getting gray, silver, or white hair is a natural part of growing older, and here's why.

Each hair on our heads is made up of two parts:

· a shaft - the colored part we see growing out of our heads

· a root - the bottom part, which keeps the hair anchored under the scalp

The root of every strand of hair is surrounded by a tube of tissue under the skin that is called the hair follicle. Each hair follicle contains a certain number of pigment cells. These pigment cells continuously produce a chemical called melanin that gives the growing shaft of hair its color of brown, blonde, red, and anything in between.

Melanin is the same stuff that makes our skin's color fair or darker. It also helps determine whether a person will burn or tan in the sun. The dark or light color of someone's hair depends on how much melanin each hair contains.

As we get older, the pigment cells in our hair follicles gradually die. When there are fewer pigment cells in a hair follicle, that strand of hair will no longer contain as much melanin and will become a more transparent color - like gray, silver, or white - as it grows. As people continue to get older, fewer pigment cells will be around to produce melanin. Eventually, the hair will look completely gray.

People can get gray hair at any age. Some people go gray at a young age - as early as when they are in high school or college - whereas others may be in their 30s or 40s before they see that first gray hair. How early we get gray hair is determined by our genes. This means that most of us will start having gray hairs around the same age that our parents or grandparents first did.

Gray hair is more noticeable in people with darker hair because it stands out, but people with naturally lighter hair are just as likely to go gray. From the time a person notices a few gray hairs, it may take more than 10 years for all of that person's hair to turn White (nice I still have timeJ).

Some people think that a big shock or trauma can turn a person's hair white or gray overnight, but scientists don't really believe that this happens.

My first 6 white hair are there let’s see how this process of change will run inside me to turn all of them into white ….

I make up my mind...

Life is about change, change happen suddenly, you don't plan them and you don't need to plan them... they are caused by you, by your choice and by some internal process of your mind such as:

Ambition

Fuels our aspirations to Make our hopes and desires a reality, Ambition is a wonderful thing. How can we manage change without it?

The art to aspire to our dreams and goals is to be ambitious. To put the effort in and to make our aspirations a reality in our lives. To have ambitions is one of the joys of life. And one of the challenges, too. And one of the catalysts of change in our life. Support that platform of hope with concerted effort and determination and what will be beyond our capabilities?

We all have our aspirations in life. Some are small, others are middling, others are large. Some we can live without, others are essential to our existence. Some help us to grow and develop, others inhibit us and our actions. Some desires lead us astray, while others lead us onto greater things and enhance our self development.

Because of all this I also understood that if I have some aims I don't have to play life, instead play games be serious about this chance concentrate as if it was the night's last dance!

Love

Wikipedia says:"Love is the emotion of strong affection and personal attachement; The word love can refer to a variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes, ranging from generic pleasure ("I loved that meal") to intense interpersonal attraction . "Love" can also refer specifically to the passionate desire and intimacy of romantic love, to the sexual love of eros, to the emotional closeness of familial love, or to the platonic love that defines friendship."

Because of all this diverse interpretations and meanings, and also for the complexity of feelings involved, in my opinion it's quite impossible to define what love is, when it comes etc...

The only thing that i understood is that we just wake up one day and we start to think differently about people, relationships and other issues just like you make up your mind after a nice coffee at the bar or a tea at the lounge.

Responsibilities

Normally it happen that we have certain obbligation connected to specific situations, and we also normally define people who fullfill those obbligations "moral" or "consistent" do you agree?

But we don't consider how and at what level responsibilities modify our lives and so they finally effect positively or negatively Change!

Finally besides those 3 important pieces of the "Change Puzzle" today I feel to be more close to Aristotele tradition" which define personal development as a category of phronesid or practical wisdom, where the practice of virtues (arête) leads to eudaimonia, commonly translated as "happiness" but more accurately understood as “human flourishing” or “living well"....

This means that we want to change... YES... to live well!

I probably understood to wich generation i belong...

In the past 6 month I was reading a lot about Gen Y and other related content... I also subscribed to some online update around the topic and I was compulsively try to understan wheter I belong to Gen Y or not....

Somenthing changed in the last few days... you know this kind of ancestral research end up in a new concept... there is another generation wich exist and I probably belong to this:

Generation C

But what is this Generation C?

They are called also "digital natives"... just reading this I discovered I'm not part of it :)

I'm not digitally savvy at all...haha... people who know me knows!

I have also another important thought: why we should separate people on the base of generations?

isn't it something that create divisions? isn't it something discriminating?

The answer for me it's easy... this world is full of discriminations and generations division is just a small drop on the sea.

Today we see that several revolutions are happening around us because of discrimination; discrimination in the last centuries was taking on the places of other important things like love, equality, sharing, learning etc...

What if we stop to talk about Generations? And we just accept that we belong to one unique world, to one unique generation?

We always want to have our freedom, to realize our dream, to feel part of something big... but what if we just start to think that in achieving all this we are not taking care of what we uncosciously deny to other people around us?

I think that at the end there is one truth: People that live in the way they like and people that don't....

Who is the victim and who is the executioner?

The virdict it's our's.

Gen Y at work...

This small video sounds useful and interesting to understand a bit more about how to deal with Generation Y people at work...

A day with Generation Y people...

Since energy is the most important source of activity for people, genaration Y people are actually very good in generating energy within themselves...

1. if 1 sleep all the other are sleeping

2. if 1 sing all the other sing

3. if 1 jump all the other jump

It is very very normal to see people which in the second part of the day (early afternoon) they generate a huge peak of energy and activity!

They have phisichal energy in huge quantity and they are able to address it only in one single task, only in 1 hour or less time it will be spread effecting the world around them...

Mental energy and phisical energy are strictly connected and at time one of the 2 is over also the other will not exist anymore.

Influence those people mood or sentiment it is very easy because they are very concentrated on emotions and relationship so they will be able to listen 100% to someone speaking or to someone promoting whatever activity...although they are super scheptical and they can barely be influenced by external source of stimultion still emotional channel is the first one to settle in order to settle change in their mind.

Looking at the following pictures, we can come out with the idea that people of today (gen Y) influenced 90% of the current market establishing a new concept of product loyalty or brand loyalty: No more favourite brand or to be more precise no Brand! Just love mark!

Status Symbol are not needed anymore, emotions are much important then ever and creating emotions it is also much easier then before because the connection between body and mind it is fast and easy to set.

Change is unsettling for them less then other it just need to be planned and well communicated of course the content should fit some shared values.

Approachig new Generation it is always amzing and fascinating, big corporation are investing bln of $ in order to generate sensefull outcome around the impact of each new generation into their internal structure and culture. Sociologist are the most required profile ever... considering that this generation is 3 times bigger than the small Gen X and it is the most diverse ever!

They will search more for new opportunity of leaving and working standards such as "Transition Economies" (http://transitionnetwork.org) and they will create further more innovative solutions that fit to their values... "They want to put their name on the door".

If any of you like this topic we can discuss it further...

Friends & Friendship Influence

Many people expect that their friends will always be there. They expect friendship to last forever.

Yet, friendships end and friends part company everyday. Unfortunately, even the best maintained friendships can end.

Many end because of a change in personality or lifestyle when friends just drift apart and fade away with time. There is a retreat from self-disclosure and seeking out each other's company. Avoidance begins. The friendship slowly loses importance and finally disappears.

Someone said me, "The end of our friendship was a gradual thing. I moved from one side of the metroplex to the other. We had over an hour's drive to see each other. For a year or so, we met very few time. Then our friendship began to taper off."

Someone else wrote me, "I didn't even know the friendship was over until I caught myself thinking of you as a former friend. In the past tense rather than the present."

One of the best friend explained, "We started seeing each other less and less. The friendship was just over."

Other friendships break up suddenly from a disagreement or move to another town.

But I truly believe that a friendship or any other relationship fails because of three things:

• Unexpressed expectations,
• Undelivered communication,
• And/or thwarted attentions

Yet the biggest threat to a friendship is change.

For example, moving from single life to coupled life has a great effect on friendship. Coupled persons often feel their single friends act interested in them only when a romantic prospect is not in sight. They may feel jealousy for or neglected by a single friend's new social life. The single friend may feel awkward and withdraw from a world of twosomes. Divorced and widowed people often have a feeling of being abandoned by old friends.

And So on... but still all those things are just a state of mind...

Communication, expectation and care are much more important!

In 28 year of my life i just understood this now...