{"id":3054,"date":"2014-01-03T09:00:32","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T09:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/change-academy\/?p=3054"},"modified":"2014-04-28T15:11:14","modified_gmt":"2014-04-28T14:11:14","slug":"new-years-resolutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/change-academy\/2014\/01\/03\/new-years-resolutions\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year&#8217;s Resolutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/change-academy\/files\/2013\/12\/change-2013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-3056 alignright\" style=\"width: 421px;height: 209px\" alt=\"change 2013\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/change-academy\/files\/2013\/12\/change-2013.jpg\" width=\"428\" height=\"209\" \/><\/a>The workplace continues to call on\u00a0our ability to change and respond to:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">* users&#8217; requirements<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">* customers&#8217; preferences<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">* stakeholder expectation<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">* regulations<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">This blog covered a range of topics in 2013.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Here are some things to think about for 2014:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022Make new <strong>networks<\/strong> of people (peers, working partners, contacts): broaden your perspectives.<br \/>\n\u2022Develop your <strong>team<\/strong> (line reports or project team; commissioned or a gathering of &#8216;the willing&#8217;).<br \/>\n\u2022Be clear about your personal job <strong>purpose<\/strong> and how that fits with your department.<br \/>\n\u2022Be ready to <strong>choose<\/strong> how you will change: the effort required, and impact of your behaviour.<br \/>\n\u2022Seek useful <strong>partnerships<\/strong> &#8211; based on relational expectations and mutuality, not contracts.<br \/>\n\u2022Change only when it is meaningful to you: act with<strong> integrity<\/strong>, consistent with your values.<br \/>\n\u2022Value <strong>incremental change<\/strong>, unless the system shows that it needs a radical overhaul.<br \/>\n\u2022Learn how to identify the difference between <strong>common causes and special causes<\/strong>.<br \/>\n\u2022Always <strong>seek knowledge and learning<\/strong> &#8211; better understand the impact of your work.<br \/>\n\u2022Aim to have <strong>fun.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two books to consider reading this year:<\/p>\n<p>Covey, S. (1989) 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Simon &amp; Shuster, New York, NY.<\/p>\n<p>Scholtes, P. (1998), The Leader\u2019s Handbook: A guide to inspiring your people and managing the daily workflow, New York: McGraw-Hill<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The workplace continues to call on\u00a0our ability to change and respond to: * users&#8217; requirements * customers&#8217; preferences * stakeholder expectation * regulations This blog covered a range of topics in 2013. Here are some things to think about for 2014: \u2022Make new networks of people (peers, working partners, contacts): broaden your perspectives. \u2022Develop your &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/change-academy\/2014\/01\/03\/new-years-resolutions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Year&#8217;s Resolutions<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2246,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[118935],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/change-academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3054"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/change-academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/change-academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/change-academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2246"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/change-academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3054"}],"version-history":[{"count":82,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/change-academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3144,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/change-academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3054\/revisions\/3144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/change-academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/change-academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/change-academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}