As a manager, your work with your consultant will probably involve change. And change is always an emotionally charged issue. Whatever its magnitude, only you, the manager, can decide whether or not implementing these changes is appropriate, useful, and valuable. Once you decide to go ahead with the changes, trust your judgment, your people, and your consultant enough to make those changes stick.
Change is instantaneous—it’s the transition that’s hard. Transition is done in three steps:
1. Let go of the current reality.
2. Proceed as the way becomes clear (perhaps awkwardly and reluctantly at first).
3. Adapt to the new reality on the way to realizing the future vision.
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