CHANGES CARDS
Create Sustainable Change in Work and Life
How will you lead through change?
The only constant is change.
We can absolutely count on it.
As leaders of organizations, teams or communities, this skill set is more important than ever.
There is good news. There is a recipe for success.
We’ve helped thousands of clients from across the world not just manage change, but leverage it.
Through the lenses of organizational consulting, executive coaching and leadership development, we’ve seen the same 7 pillars be the predictors of success.
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The CHANGES framework is a tool to help individuals and groups explore what is holding them back from making positive change in their work or personal life. CHANGES stands for Cognition, Heart, Action, Nourishment, Guts, Environment and Spirit.
COGNITION
Do you make decisions quickly, not quickly enough, issue strong judgements, think poorly of yourself or too highly perhaps? These are just a few ways to consider “how” you think. The important part is to critically evaluate your unique cognitive process as it relates to the changes you wish to create in your life.
HEART
Our emotions play a big part in our ability to succeed. When we are confident, grateful, curious and positive, then we will have a greater chance of achieving change. When we are negative, angry, reactive, or closed off from our emotions, we may have a harder time moving toward positive change. Exploring our emotional self in all of its variety helps us understand what emotions are influencing us, what we might be avoiding and what we can do to realign.
ACTION
Thinking and feeling are important, but it is the actions we take that guide our thoughts and feelings. Our action, or inaction, plays a significant role in our ability to push toward our desired outcome.
NOURISHMENT
It is not news that what we eat, how we move, how well we sleep, and our general lifestyle all influence us from day to day and over the course of our lives. This influence is especially pertinent to the process of seeking and maintaining positive change. How we treat our body affects our motivation, energy, creativity, strength, and focus. Considering how we nourish ourselves is vital.
GUTS
When moving through a change, consider if you have the guts to ask the hard questions. Can you explore the important depths of your lived experience? The opportunity is to examine your strengths, values, passions, fears, insecurities, blind spots, and shadows. Can you do what’s necessary to allow your most authentic self to come forward? Guts are required.
ENVIRONMENT
When it comes to positive change making, our environment goes beyond the people we choose to be around. Our environment includes our family members, friends, partners, workplace, city/town, community and even where we spend our time online. The people, places, things and ideas we surround ourselves with are always influencing us. This influence can propel us toward what we want or actively prevent us from achieving our goals. Choose wisely.
SPIRIT
You can identify as Spiritual, Pagan, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Jewish, Agnostic, Atheist, etc. No matter how you define yourself, your sense of meaning and belief system informs how you go through the demanding process of creating positive change. Examining how your belief system affects you, is always helpful. How we frame the world and grapple with the hows and whys of our existence is a core component of how we interact, make decisions, and apply meaning to situations.
Unlike conversation starter cards, The Changes cards follow along with Michael's book, Changes, for navigating change, which the questions are also connected to.
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The Changes Cards deck includes 63 cards: 7 questions for each of the 7 dimensions of life, 6 activity cards (2 for individuals, 2 for one-one, 2 for groups), 7 explanation cards for each of the 7 dimensions of life, and 1 introduction card.
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Michael Diettrich-Chastain
Founder & CEO of ARC INTEGRATED and
Creator of Changes Cards
Michael is an author, speaker, professional coach and consultant dedicated to creating peak performance in people and
their organizations.
Michael specializes in working with leaders and teams that want to reduce stress, create more time in their schedule and build more engaged, happy and profitable workplaces. Michael firmly believes that self discovery (and then application) translates to a business setting and is accomplished within the client or business’s own unique experience.
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