Do you want to make the process of change to become more successful? Conduct behavior change for the life you grow to be better? Or maybe you want to make the process of change for the company’s performance and your organization to become more perfect.
So how did the process of “organizational change” that worked?
The theme of change in both personal issues and organizations has long been a hot topic in the world of management. Unfortunately, many initiatives of change (change management) that failed and stopped in the middle of the road and even then foundered. Why be like this?
And what should be prioritized when we want to make the process of successful change both on a personal level or organizational?
Some behavioral experts call the process of change is often ineffective because of weakness begins with the approach-based orientation. It is also often referred as problem-based orientation. The point is this: change initiative begins with the premise that there is something “wrong” in us or our organization, that we or our organization has a lot of weakness and problems.
For that and then we conducted a series of actions to “cure” the weakness, or to treat so many problems that arise in the organization / our company as well.
Problem-based approach-based or weakness is so pervasive in the discourse of management for this.
We know the science of problem solving skills, or competency gap analysis, or also a variety of root cause problem analysis methods. All these methods depart from the premise that earlier: that there are “shortcomings”, “disease” or “problem” in us or our organization, and we have to treat it.
However, some studies indicate that such an approach is often not effective in improving performance. The reason is simple, easy approach by encouraging us to get stuck in a negative mindset and culture. We spend so much energy and tiresome to dwell only on the shortcomings, weaknesses, and problems that seemed would never finish.
Problem-oriented approach and weakness-based it easily will also bring the culture of pessimism and to discourage our spirit or team members. We or members of the team seem pessimistic because we have so many weaknesses, and our organization is full of problems / issues. In this situation, we easily lose inspiration and motivation.
That is why now is a new approach that radically different from the approach above. The new approach is called a strengths-based orientation. The basic principle of this approach is: we will work toward a better, if the change initiative that relies on the strength we already has today. The key is this: focus on your positive strengths.
So rather than spend energy to focus on the shortcomings or the problems of organization, but we must find the strength of existing elements in ourselves, or the positive elements already present inside our organization. By removing the language of “root causes of problems”, and replace it using the phrase “root causes of success”, success will be in our organization.
Concretely: rather than lamenting the continuing weakness of yourself, why not remember anything about strengths that is inside of you, or positive experiences you will ever have (each of you must have excess or positive experience). Studies show that individual performance would be much shot if then “positive points” that already exist that continue to be accumulated, duplicated and kept separated toward the optimal point.
In the context of the organization, it is also true. Instead of busy diagnosing problems that exist in organization / company, and then tired to treat it, then it should be directed our energy to explore “positive moments” or “power features” that already exist within the organization. Then create a series of actions to duplicate the “positive moment” was, and continues to grow existing power features leading to the maximum level.
The extreme approach want to say that: forget your weakness / problems, and just focus on your strengths/positive expectations. Find your positive areas and discover your bright spots. And miraculously, various studies show similar premise had already succeeded in converting many individuals and organizations become more successful shot.
So start today, if you want to become a more successful person, always remember this sentence: always and always focus on your bright spots.