Shaking your booty may not be your forte, but shaking up your office might be. If change is inevitable, and change always involves taking some risk, then taking a risk now and then should be inevitable too. Whatever the common practices of your organization might be, the best companies are always looking for ways to get even better. If you are reading this blog then you are probably already a forward thinker, but is putting your ideas into action worth the risk?
Becoming an agent of change in your workplace means taking a risk. Here are a few things to consider before putting ideas into practice:
- If your company does not make this change, will it continue to prosper?
- Do you see opportunities the competition doesn’t see?
- Will the change you make help everyone in the company, or just a few?
- What are some financial benefits to your proposed change?
The answers to some of these questions are a good place to begin weighing the risk to benefit ratio and for formulating your reasons for wanting change. Don’t forget that many of the most successful people in the world took a great risk at some point to get them where they are today. Good luck! And if you decide to act on an idea in your workplace, or you have in the past, please write to us and let us know how it goes (or how it went). We’re going to collect a few stories and share them in a future post on “being a change agent in the workplace.”
For more info, check out this article from the Harvard Business Review, The 10 Questions Every Change Agent Must Answer
Tags: change, change agent, HR Strategy, productivity
