Still Moving Field Guide
Description
Still Moving Field Guide is a companion to the bestselling Still Moving: How to Lead Mindful Change. Designed as a practical resource, the Field Guide takes the reader on a journey to hone their leadership skills in order to lead change with confidence. Step by step, readers will progress through the Still Moving concepts.
New to the guide is the innovative Change Vitality model (an energizing holistic way of leading change) that puts all the Still Moving concepts into one effective picture. The author breaks down each element of the Change Vitality model and explores what the element is, how to recognize it, and why it helps leaders lead change well. The model also shows how to rate your own leadership in a particular skill, and includes tales from the field on putting the skill into action. The guide also contains further reading and resources to help cultivate the skills presented. This important book:
* Offers a practical guide for developing the change leadership skills outlined in Still Moving
* Contains application stories with real life leaders in change
* Presents the Change Vitality model - a new, holistic and research-based framework for how to lead change with greater ease
* Provides an interactive immersion journey into the Still Moving content
* Includes spaces for journaling and self-reflection
Written for all curious change leaders, change coaches, change consultants, and HR professionals, the Still Moving Field Guide is filled with practical ideas on how to use the Still Moving concepts with yourself, your team, and the wider systems you are seeking to transform.
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Deborah Rowland has led change in major global corporations including BBC Worldwide, Gucci Group, PepsiCo and Shell. Author of Still Moving: How to Lead Mindful Change (Wiley) and co-author of Sustaining Change: Leadership That Works (Wiley), Deborah founded the change consultancy Still Moving, where she now advises institutional leaders around the world.
Content
Foreword vii
Acknowledgments xi
A Few Words About the Front Cover xiii
About the Companion Website xv
Introduction 1
Part 1 Understanding Change Vitality 3
What Is Change Vitality? 3
What Makes Up Change Vitality? 4
What Change Vitality Comprises-in More Detail 6
Why Does Change Vitality Matter? 6
Part 2 Field Guide-The Inner Capacities 9
Introduction 9
Staying Present 10
Curious and Intentional Responding 14
Tuning Into the System 18
Acknowledging the Whole 23
A Word About Non-Mindful Practice 28
Part 3 Field Guide-The External Practices 29
Introduction 29
Attractor 30
Edge and Tension 34
Container 40
Transforming Space 45
External Practices Self-Audit 51
Part 4 Field Guide-The Change Approaches 55
Introduction 55
Masterful 56
Emergent 62
Directive and Self-Assembly Change 68
Assessing Your Approach to Change 71
Part 5 Field Guide-The Ordering Forces 77
Leading Change-Ordering Forces Insight 77
Time 77
Belonging 81
Belonging- How Well Do You Attend to This? 81
Tale From the Field: Time and Belonging-Mergers and Acquisitions 82
Exchange 86
Place 90
A Word About Limiting Forces: What Happens When the Ordering Forces Are Neglected? 94
Still Moving-Epilogue 95
Index 97
