Step Change

Step Change

by Alan Watkins
Released February 2022
Publisher(s): Routledge
ISBN: 9781000473834

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Book description

Change is ubiquitous. Step Change finally dispels the confusion around successful change by offering a proven road map through change from comfort zone to post-delivery inspiration in 12 steps.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. About the author
  3. Half-Title Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Introduction
    1. The hero’s journey
    2. Change and stress
    3. The leader’s journey
    4. Notes
  9. 1 Step-1: Comfort zone
    1. How do I know if I’m at step-1?
    2. How does it feel to be in step-1?
      1. The trap of narcissism
    3. The key characteristics of narcissism are:
    4. Cultural metaphors
    5. The transition from step-1 to step-2
      1. Questions to ask yourself
  10. 2 Step-2: Challenge to reality
    1. How do I know if I’m at step-2?
    2. Value-based wake-up call
    3. How does it feel to be in step-2?
      1. Prolonged discomfort
      2. Observable pain in others
      3. Personal pain
      4. The biological consequences of being stuck at step-2
      5. The mental health consequences of being stuck at step-2
      6. Victimhood
        1. Permanence
        2. Pervasiveness
        3. Personalisation
        4. Projection
    4. Cultural metaphors
    5. Transition from step-2 to step-3
      1. Questions to ask yourself
    6. Notes
  11. 3 Step-3: Resistance to change
    1. How do I know if I’m at step-3?
      1. Vertical development
    2. How does it feel to be in step-3?
      1. The expert mindset
      2. Assessing the helper
    3. Cultural metaphors
    4. Transition from step-3 to step-4
      1. Questions to ask yourself
    5. Notes
  12. 4 Step-4: Overcoming resistance
    1. How do I know if I’m at step-4?
    2. How does it feel to be in step-4?
      1. Doubt
      2. The accountability compass
        1. North: clarity
        2. East: skill
        3. South: follow up
        4. Centre: motivation
        5. West: maturity
    3. Cultural metaphors
    4. The transition from step-4 to step-5
      1. Questions to ask yourself
    5. Note
  13. 5 Step-5: Commitment
    1. How do I know if I’m at step-5?
      1. Rites of passage
    2. How does it feel to be at step-5?
      1. State change vs level change
    3. Cultural metaphors
    4. The transition from step-5 to step-6
      1. Questions to ask yourself
    5. Note
  14. 6 Step-6: Prepare for change
    1. How do I know if I’m at step-6?
      1. Behaviours needed to master step-6
        1. Imagine
    2. How does it feel to be at step-6?
      1. Appreciation skill
        1. Appreciation exercise
    3. Cultural metaphors
    4. The transition from step-6 to step-7
      1. Questions to ask yourself
    5. Notes
  15. 7 Step-7: Trials and tribulations
    1. How do I know if I’m at step-7?
      1. Start from where you are
      2. Start where the biggest impact can be made
        1. The Complete App
      3. Charting our progress
    2. How does it feel to be at step-7?
      1. Lack of diligence
    3. Cultural metaphors
    4. The transition from step-7 to step-8
      1. Questions to ask yourself
    5. Notes
  16. 8 Step-8: Deep work
    1. How do I know if I’m at step-8?
    2. Albert Pesso’s five basic needs
      1. Home/place
        1. You may have a home/place pathology:
      2. Nourishment
        1. You may have a nourishment pathology:
      3. Support
        1. You may have a support pathology:
      4. Protection
        1. You may have a protection pathology:
      5. Boundaries
        1. You may have a boundaries pathology:
    3. Fixing the faulty code
      1. 3-2-1 skill
      2. Rotating chair
      3. Repeating question
    4. How does it feel to be at step-8?
      1. Fear
      2. Delusion and pseudo-enlightenment
    5. Cultural metaphors
    6. The transition from step-8 to step-9
      1. Questions to ask yourself
    7. Notes
  17. 9 Step-9: Embodying the change
    1. How do I know if I’m at step-9?
      1. Embodiment
      2. Purpose
      3. The ‘story of you’
    2. How does it feel to be at step-9?
      1. Complacency
    3. Cultural metaphors
    4. The transition from step-9 to step-10
      1. Questions to ask yourself
    5. Notes
  18. 10 Step-10: Return
    1. How do I know if I’m at step-10?
      1. Working with your purpose
        1. Follow your bliss
    2. How does it feel to be at step-10?
      1. Failure to mark the return and disillusionment
    3. Cultural metaphors
    4. The transition from step-10 to step-11
      1. Questions to ask yourself
    5. Note
  19. 11 Step-11: Delivery at the new level
    1. How do I know if I’m at step-11?
    2. How does it feel to be at step-11?
      1. Satisfaction
    3. Cultural metaphors
    4. The transition from step-11 to step-12
      1. Questions to ask yourself
  20. 12 Step-12: Inspire
    1. How do I know if I’m at step-12?
    2. How does it feel to be at step-12?
      1. As good as it gets
    3. Cultural metaphors
    4. The transition to a new change cycle
      1. Questions to ask yourself
    5. Note
  21. 13 The leader as coach
    1. Step-1: Comfort zone
    2. Step-2: Challenge to reality
      1. Archetypes at step-2
    3. Step-3: Resistance to change
      1. Resistance revisited
      2. Archetypes at step-3
    4. Step-4: Overcoming resistance
      1. Coach’s resistance
      2. Archetypes at step-4
    5. Step-5: Commitment
      1. Archetypes at step-5
    6. Step-6: Prepare for change
      1. Archetypes at step-6
    7. Step-7: Trials and tribulations
      1. Archetypes at step-7
    8. Step-8: Deep work
      1. Archetypes at step-8
    9. Step-9: Embodying the change
      1. Archetypes at step-9
    10. Step-10: Return
      1. Archetypes at steps-10 to-12
    11. Step-11: Delivery at the new level
    12. Step-12: Inspire
    13. Note
  22. Index

Product information

  • Title: Step Change
  • Author(s): Alan Watkins
  • Release date: February 2022
  • Publisher(s): Routledge
  • ISBN: 9781000473834