Jennifer Brick: How can you be better at adapting
to change at work? If there's anything that we
learned in 2020? It's that adapting to change a
work is a crucial career success skill, but how
can you do better. And as we head into the next
year, we are still going to be faced with adapting
to change our work. So how can you be the best
possible when it comes to adapting to change?
Well, that is what we are exploring in this video.
If you are ready to learn how to quickly adapt to
change at work, tap that like button, and let's
just jump straight into it. The first step to
adapt to change and work effectively, is to accept
it, whether it's a complete change in how we work
like how so many of us just went from going to
work in an office to working from home, if it's a
change in your career status, because your company
has gone through some changes and is having to
downsize or maybe you're going through a merger or
an acquisition or just your usual restructure at
work. The most important thing that we can do when
it comes to adapting to change at work is to
accept that you're not going to be able to change
all of the macro level things and world events and
leadership decisions that are going to impact your
day to day life at work. However, instead of
resisting the wave, you can decide to get on it
and serve. And I know some of the changes create a
lot of instability and unsteadiness and fear and
anxiety and all of those things, but accept that
the change is happening and control what you can
control. And this actually leads me to my next tip
to adapt to change at work. And that is to
communicate, especially when you are going through
change at work, there is going to be a lot more
questions than there were answers. This is exactly
what I went through a few years ago when the
company I worked for was acquired by the biggest
SAS company in the world of Salesforce. And I
ended up first leading a team which combined teams
from multiple companies, but then also integrating
it into the core Salesforce business. And yeah, I
had a lot of questions. And we were figuring out a
lot of the answers along the way at every level of
leadership. And the thing that I learned as we
navigated all of the unknowns that we needed to
that was that the best thing that I could do, both
for my boss for my team and for my peers was to
communicate, the more open I was about what we
were working on the status of things, the goals,
and the more clearly I understood what was going
on around me, I was better able to navigate those
changes. And to help my team members navigate
those changes as well. Even if you're not a
manager, and you don't need to worry about
communicating with your team, you can still be a
leader in adapting to change at work by making
sure that you're keeping open communications with
everyone around you. And this brings me to my
third tip to adapting to change at work. And this
is the most important one, especially if you are
going through a major reorganization or a merger
and acquisition. And if you focus on this one
thing as you adapt to change your work, you're
going to be okay, when you need to adapt to change
at work, focus on the metrics that matter and do
this unrelentless Lee, no matter what change your
company on the team is going through, there are
going to be specific metrics that are non
negotiables. And as long as those are moving in a
positive direction, you are going to be doing
everything that you can to support your business
and your team through the change that you're
navigating through. And if you are navigating
through and in stable time in your career, as our
company is doing this, this is going to net you
the most positive result, either in job stability,
where you're at, or making you really in demand
for your dream job. And the metrics that matter
typically come down to the dollars and cents.
Going back to when I was leaving the team through
the merger, I knew the best thing that I can do
for myself and for my team was to focus on growing
our team's revenue, we were a profit center. And I
knew that if we had high margins, that my team
would be saved, and the business would want to
make sure that the team was sustained. And all of
my team members were absolutely instrumental in
doing this because they were focusing on those
same metrics that mattered. So while you're
adapting to change a work, I want you to think
about what metric Can I really focus on, if you're
in sales, it's your quota, its new revenue. If
you're in customer success or account management,
it's going to be on revenue retention. If you're
in support, it's going to be client satisfaction,
focusing on that metric is going to give you
guidance when everything else is completely
ambiguous. And this is actually something that can
even help guide you to implement. The fourth tip
that I have to adapt to change at work is to find
ways to make an impact going back to all of those
questions that don't have answers if you know your
wheelhouse, you know your expertise and what you
are uniquely qualify to do, you are actually going
to be able to be someone that answers some of
those questions. And this is one of the things
that I dive in into into my workshop. And that's
defining your ua Q and what you need to do to
bring it to life and to really ascend the ranks.
Because ultimately, when you are navigating change
at work, it is actually an opportunity, maybe at
your company, maybe in stepping up into a
different role at a different company, no matter
what it is, as long as you know, your ua Q and
what you can bring to the table and are making
that positive impact, you're going to be
accelerating your success, even through unsure
times at work. And this brings me to the next tip
that I have for you in adapting to change at work.
And this one is crucial, because I know a lot of
people that don't do this, and they end up
miserable, insecure. And sometimes on the chopping
block, when you're navigating change at work, you
need to stay positive. And I know when there's a
lot of insecurity, when there's a lot of
ambiguity, you might not be feeling very confident
in your career or in the stability of your job at
that company. And that's a hard place to be in.
But remember, you only really control two things
in this situation, you control how awesome you
are, and you control your attitude. And in fact,
when you choose to adopt a positive mindset as
you're adapting to change at work, this is going
to be what allows you to see and really take
advantage of the opportunities that are being
presented as you navigate those changes at work.
In fact, this is so important I want you to head
over to this video right now. And find out how you
can cultivate a more positive attitude at work.
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