| Change: Where Your Opportunities Lie | | | | user manuals; identify the problem, and then start |
| Change is ever present in our lives and in our world | | | | developing the customer manuals and training that will |
| and as long as change exists; opportunities will exist. | | | | make your department members more productive |
| With every change there is a multitude of | | | | faster. Be the innovator and the catalyst as the early |
| opportunities that surface. Those that are prepared | | | | adopter of the technology. |
| will see the opportunities, while those that are | | | | Change Be Your Friend |
| unprepared will lament the changes. | | | | Did you know that change can be your friend? |
| Your Ability To Recognize Opportunity Is Dependent | | | | Typically it is because of change that we have the |
| Upon Your Ability To Recognize Change | | | | opportunity to pick up new skills or attend new |
| Opportunities come along as the result of change. If | | | | training. Because of those new skills or training our |
| you are seeing opportunities look for the underlying | | | | value to our current and future employers increases. |
| changes that are occurring. Once you find those | | | | We now have one more skill or trait to add to our |
| underlying changes; you can look for the | | | | resume. We have one more class to add to our |
| opportunities. | | | | educational profile. Adding skills, abilities, and training |
| Embracing Change | | | | makes us more desirable as an employee and we |
| When a change is announced within your organization | | | | should seek out these opportunities wherever we |
| embrace it, jump at it, volunteer to be part of it. In | | | | might find them. |
| today's world you must be looking for every | | | | How To Exploit Change |
| competitive advantage you can have and change is | | | | Change always needs a leader and those that raise |
| one of the things that will bring opportunities your | | | | the issue and make the justified case for change |
| way. | | | | often become the leaders for the change process. |
| If your company is adopting a new technology, not | | | | Opportunities lie in change and when you can foster |
| just new to them, but new period. Raise your hand | | | | and lead the process you raise your visibility. When |
| early and often to participate in learning about the | | | | you are successful; you raise your value. |
| technology and bringing it into your organization. | | | | How Can You Benefit From Change? |
| Somewhere, someone made a commitment to this | | | | Your willingness and ability to dig into and learn the |
| new technology and the implementation will take | | | | details will set you apart from others within your |
| leaders; be one of them. | | | | organization. By getting in on the ground floor you |
| Get excited about the new technology and take | | | | can also become a sought after expert. Other |
| every opportunity to learn about it. If you are in a | | | | organizations that are not the early adopters will be |
| department within the organization that is not directly | | | | looking for people that are experienced with the |
| involved; find out how it might impact your | | | | technology when they are ready to implement. If |
| department and become the local resident expert on | | | | you have taken the opportunity to create your |
| the technology. Do whatever you can to learn about | | | | brand and increase your sphere of influence can lead |
| the technology and be able to apply it in your area. | | | | to many lucrative opportunities with other |
| Often times new technology comes with unfriendly | | | | organizations. |