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    The Time NOW for Change
    The Time NOW for Change
    The Time NOW for Change
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    The Time NOW for Change

    By John Fisher

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    Most change looks at how organisations change and ignore the individual. This booklet looks to redress that balance by proposing a model of change that closes the past whilst acknowledging what worked. Creating a vibrant vision of the future and helping identifying first steps/actions.

    Using Personal Construct Theory as a guide which places individual meaning and sense making as the main focus it provides change agents with some useful tools and techniques for managing change.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJohn Fisher
    Release dateNov 12, 2013
    ISBN9781311555038
    The Time NOW for Change
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    John Fisher

    John Fisher worked with dogs professionally for more than 20 years. He was a regular contributor to What Dog? and Pet Dog magazines and is the author of Think Dog and Dogwise: The Natural Way to Train Your Dog.

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      The Time NOW for Change - John Fisher

      The Time NOW for Change

      Copyright 2013 John M Fisher

      Published by C2D at Smashwords

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      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your enjoyment only, then please return to Smashwords.com or your favorite retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgements

      Prologue

      Ch, Ch, Changes

      The Change Agent

      Positioning the Past

      Past

      Present

      Future

      Implications for Change Agents

      A Process

      A Toolkit

      About John M Fisher

      Other books by John M Fisher

      Connect with John M Fisher

      Acknowledgements

      Thanks are due to Dr Harry Procter whose work has inspired me since finding his Open University contributions which first introduced me to George Kelly and Personal Construct Theory and who is now a friend.

      I’ve made every effort to identify ownership of all the models contained within this e-book that are not my own and offer my sincerest apologies for any omissions.

      Please contact me if you believe anything, or one, has been missed.

      Good luck and enjoy the ride!

      Prologue

      Before we start looking at change tools and techniques, I’d like to say a few words about how I believe we see our world and how we interact with it. It has been claimed that we are all intrinsically active and can be seen as forms in motion (Kelly 1955/1991, Neimeyer 2009). Heraclitus believed that we operated in a dynamic way to reduce tension between opposites.

      My approach is firmly linked into the Personal Construct Theory model (Kelly 1955/1991) of human behaviours. This model is a very personal model, it is self-reflexive and based specifically on the

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