Change or Transition

The other day I was talking with a friend of mine Jason Womack. He  is an excellent motivational speaker and business skills management coach. We were talking about why people do what they do or fail to do what they need to do. This is one of my favorite topics, the old social worker in me  comes out. Most people in business would do well to look into applied Psychology. In the course of the conversation we talked about why people resist change.  And we came to the conclusion that the word change implies that there is something wrong with what you are  doing, and of course no one wants to be wrong.  As a matter of fact the word change is so strong that it also implies that there is nothing good about the person or business model we want to work with. Far be it for me to challenge  other business thinkers. But, I believe that we would be better off working to improve what some individuals or businesses are doing right, than to point out what they are doing wrong. There is a new helping model centered around this concept called strength based social work that may be a good model for business transition.

Notice I did not use the word change, but transition. Actually as Jason and I talked further we changed the word transition to transcend meaning to move above or go beyond. So,  maybe what all of us best practice technology guys should be saying is, " let us help you do better." After all there are very few individuals and businesses organizations who don't want help. And even fewer who don't want to do better. The proof is in the pudding, help them do better and they will come back for more.