This is the 4^th blog in a 10-blog series about Habits, doing New Things, and Change.

 

Last month, the Greater Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber of Commerce hosted a presentation by Dr. John Oesch of the Rotman School of Business, University of Toronto. The presentation was titled:

 

[John Oesch, UofT - oesch@rotman.utoronto.ca]

 

Here is a summary of the notes I took during the Five Unusual Ideas About Change session:

Now those are ideas we can test in our workplaces.

 

Perhaps, we already have tried them?

 

If so - and if they worked, helping us create Change - then we may have repeated them enough so they are Good Habits.

 

If we have not tried these 5 ideas then we could consider one or more of them as potential New Things we could try. Our goal is to generate Change, both in ourselves and in those we lead. Perhaps, for you, these 5 ideas contain seeds for creating new Good Habits.

 

In the next blog, I will describe some of Maxwell Maltz's ideas about self-image… Psycho-Cybernetics and Changing For The Better.

 

This is the 3^rd blog in a 10-blog series about Habits, doing New Things, and Change.

 

To do better, to grow our businesses and to prosper, we must help people make Changes For The Better. And to make Change we must replace Bad Habits with Good Habits. Often, we can change Bad Habits into Good Habits by doing New Things…ie, doing New Things specifically designed to remove the Bad Habit and create the Good Habit.

 

The next 6 blogs will present some example of ideas, tools, and techniques aimed at helping people create positive Change.

 

A summary of blogs to follow:

 

Blog 4:     Five Unusual Ideas About Change…John Oesch, PhD

Blog 5:     Psycho-Cybernetics…Dr Maxwell Maltz

Blog 6:     MotivAider^®…a habit-changing tool

Blog 7:     Physiology & Change Your Brain, Change Your Life…Dr. Daniel Amen

Blog 8:     Human Strengths & Weaknesses: StrengthsFinder…Marcus Buckingham

Blog 9:     A New Habit, P=2S+O^©…a habit-changing tool

Blog 10:   Wrap-up discussion

 

To create Change For The Better people need to consider New Things and develop Good Habits.

 

To develop Good Habits people need to be open to considering new ideas and new tools.

 

The next blog will introduce John Oesch's Five Unusual Ideas About Change.