Workplace changes are happening day to day right now. As you manage the stress that comes about from learning of a necessary change, I ask you to reframe your thinking about change to be less about how you *handle* it and more about how you can *adapt* to it. Some changes aren't easy to handle. And in the workplace, the answer might ultimately be to get another job. Or if you've been laid off, the answer might be to find your network to feel immediately supported.
Whatever your next step needs are, when you reframe handling change to be about adapting to change, you are redirecting your energy toward your own growth and what will work for you. This gives you a measure of control over how you adapt, and you are opening up to a mindset that can focus on smaller adjustments that lead to predictability and stability once again.
When you have to handle a change, it’s easy to feel like the change is happening TO you—and, it probably is if it’s a necessary change at work, but when you shift to thinking about it as an adaptation, you are setting up a mindset about smaller adjustments, and those adjustments can be less reactive and more thoughtful for what you may need.
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