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CAREER FOCUS “WHO MOVED MY CHEESE” ome people may be aware Sof the book Who Moved My Cheese, by Dr Spencer Johnson. The book is an inspiration to embrace change. Change can be confusing and mostly frustrating if handled incorrectly or even if addressed incorrectly. We have companies and individuals nowadays specialising in Change Management. These companies or individuals are there to assist and encourage a work environment that embraces change. A few years ago a new CEO joined the company I was working for and immediately started analysing the company environment, its employees and its future possibilities. She sees a need to restructure the company from the way it does business to the roles each employee has. She has a vision in terms of which employees should be performing what roles in the organisation. Immediately she started hiring people for new roles and for existing ones. Now, when one hires someone else for an existing role, one has to move the person currently in that role to a different role and help them embrace the change. This is not what happened in this particular case; the existing employees were not helped to embrace the change that came with the vision. This resulted in resistance, or should I say resignations and a loss of valuable employees. The book Who Moved My Cheese is designed to help individuals faced with change to embrace the change without the assistance of 45
CAREER FOCUS | “Who Moved My Cheese” anyone, no matter what kind of change. I read an article by Strive Masiyiwa sharing his experience on his encounter with a New York based taxi driver. A conversation broke between the two of them about the Uber cars being designed to drive themselves, which makes the taxi driver’s job redundant. He was amazed at how the taxi driver was embracing the change coming, by looking for other alternatives before it comes so he does not nd himself out of ‘cheese’. He then advises that each and every one has to change their careers at least every 5 years, not necessarily by moving companies or changing jobs, but by changing the way in which they do their jobs. “We ask God to open doors for us and create opportunities. Because He knows us best and what we need, He does that in His way and not always the way we expect.” ‘ I once worked for a boss that started calling everyone that had worked for her in the same job for at least 3 years ‘furniture’. The truth is you have to move for you to remain relevant, comfort makes you redundant. Whether it is changing jobs or changing the way you do your job. You have to keep with the times. Every year there is a new graduate, fresh mind that would be better suitable for your job because of the fresh ideas they’d be bringing, which then makes you irrelevant. If your boss encourages you to move either to another department, add a responsibility or change your responsibilities all together, do not ght it. They would have seen something in you that you perhaps do not see. My former CEO had mentioned to my boss that I was being underutilised and therefore she decided to add on my responsibilities. Her adding on my responsibilities though was moving me to another direction I never would have thought of, and eventually I would have had to leave my responsibilities all together. What she was doing was to reactivate the dead abilities I had laid off due to being comfortable, at the same time directing me to my ‘suitable’ position while introducing change in my career. I did not embrace the change and so I left, but now I see that had I stayed and embraced the change I would have found myself growth and joy, because that which she was moving me towards is what I am doing and enjoying now. We ask God to open doors for us and create opportunities. Because He knows us best and what we need, He does that in his way and not always the way we expect. We sometimes don’t see His hand because we are too afraid to embrace change or too focused on trivial things to see what He is doing for us. The door can open in a direction that you had not even thought of or ever considered, but He knows where it leads. Or an opportunity may come from where you had not imagined or even see it working out, but He knows where it leads. Trust Him and follow His lead, and make Him your comfort through whatever frustrations that the change may bring. But most of all keep your mind open to new possibilities and go wherever your shepherd leads you, He leadeth you to green pastures. Wonder why career people are always studying and attending workshop after workshop, or even constantly changing jobs? Mind you, job hopping increases instability but a career is not a career without change, it is stagnation. So, hop wisely! 27 46
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