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ORGANIZATION CHANGE AGENT

Organization Change Agent

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Organization Change Agent

In both workplace and personal life, change will continue to occur, as Hyde (2018) described as a continuous process. The determination of life success is being managed and controlled by change. It’s not easy for some people to adjust to change in their lives, but it will lead them to significant consequences for those who fail to adapt. There are consequences associated with change resistance and how you can handle it in your life, as demonstrated by the video “who moved the cheese” by Dr spencer. As a change agent, I believe my successful strategies were based on team building, sharing knowledge with other stakeholders and being flexible to change. Furthermore, I realized that change could not occur using an authoritative strategy. You cannot implement change individually; it requires more than one person in an organization for it to take place.  

Depending on one’s view, change can be a blessing or a curse. In order to be a better change agent, there are two things I learned. First, we can forget the past and move on quickly if we see change as a positive outcome. Secondly, just like “Hem”, we can be trapped and destroyed once we take change as a negative outcome. I would instead enjoy my life and move on, accept everything concerning change and learn from my mistake just as a Haw, but I can’t be like Hem where his life is going astray for resisting and denying change. The significant thing concerning change that encourages me is “when you move beyond your fear; you feel free” (Johnson, 2016). We can’t live without fear, its not an evil thing, but fear can make you not move forward and grow because it makes you not do things beyond our imagination. This video imparted to me in a unique way that fear is part of life, and we can’t prevent fear to happen, but we must go beyond “cheese” and reach the heights of success.

References

Hyde, C. A. (2018). Leading from below: Low-power actors as organizational change agents. Human Service Organizations: Management, Leadership & Governance, 42(1), 53-67.

Johnson, S. (2016). Who Moved My Cheese? Braille Superstore.