Be a Contemporary Chameleon, not a Professional Dinosaur!
Downsizing...rightsizing...restructuring...reinventing...streamlining...outsourcing...the mere mention of these words cause high blood pressure, heart-burn, insomnia, and tension headaches in offices across the country. Employees must keep pace with the rapid-fire changes American businesses face.
With technology advances and fierce global competition, many once secure business professionals find themselves in the uncomfortable position of being out-maneuvered. Employees are starting to focus on the fact that, according to business expert and trainer, Brian Tracy, "In order to earn more, you have to learn more."
Instead of becoming the dinosaur, they are taking their cue from the small, agile chameleon whose swift color changes allow it to survive the changing environment. Manage motion, speed up, and keep learning are just a few "chameleon adaptations" recommended by Price Pritchett, author of "New Work Habits for a Radically Changing World", for ones future career or business success.
Learning to manage motion
is vital according to Pritchett, who is an internationally recognized authority on change. In his book, he advises to accept the probability of continual change in job duties, co-workers, bosses, and careers; to expect to do more with less, faster and better. Realize job requirements will often be uncertain and vague; yet, take full responsibility for outcomes. Give more than you take. Fix the problem, not the blame. Adjust expectations.Speed up
is another recurring theme in Pritchetts series of employee handbooks on change. All this decrease in corporate body count and simultaneous increase in systems improvement and technological upgrades are not random, careless acts. Like the chameleon, these changes are survival instincts. Where employees are slow, organizations cant go fast.Keep learning!
"We used to think of school as grades K-12... Now weve got to start thinking of school as K-80," Pritchett says in "Mind Shift". His research also reports that 50% of our skills become outdated in a matter of three to five years. As a result, the fastest growing learning sector is employee education. In todays job market, continuing education is a fact of life.Technology is expanding rapidly in virtually every field, making change the only constant in most jobs. But it also provides a means for keeping up with career and life skills.
One unique source is the Success Channel, a three year old television network that brings the worlds top business trainers and coaches into living rooms and offices across North America.Even more unique is that, unlike other satellite training broadcasts that are pay per view, the Success Channel is beamed into homes for free. The concept was so exceptional that a major digital satellite television provider gave them a channel in the U.S. (something never before done), quickly followed by a Canadian digital provider. The Success Channel broadcasts 24 hours/ seven days a week.
Higher education institutions across the country are creating onsite programs to help employees enhance their skills and keep pace with todays job market. Fee based training seminars abound in major cities. The Success Channel is technologys answer to meeting the customer where he wants to be at home!
For information about The Success Channel or how to receive it in your home or for your employees, contact Marian Hays at 800-251-6964 or email her at
marian@sohos.net