Change 101

WHO MOVED MY CHEESE?®

Based on a book by Spencer Johnson, M.D. Al San Buenaventura http://alsanbuenaventura.blogspot.com

An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in

Your Work and in your Life

Introduction and Overview

• Who I am and what’s my cheese?

* What makes me happy?

• A 12-minute video - * The Story

• As you’re watching, notice which of the four characters you believe you are most like

So, which character do you believe you are you most like?

Hem?

Who does not want to change?

“It’s not fair!”

Haw?

Who is startled by change, but then

laughs at himself, changes and

moves on to new cheese?

The Littlepeople – two beings as small as mice but who look and act a lot like people

Sniff?

Who can smell change in the air

Scurry?

Who goes into action

immediately

The Mice

The Search for Cheese

Cheese - a metaphor for what we want to have in life, whether it is a job, a relationship, money, a big house, freedom, health, recognition, spiritual peace, or even an activity like basketball or running. Each of us has our own idea of what Cheese is, and we pursue it because we believe it makes us happy. If we get it, we often become attached to it. And if we lose it, or it’s taken away, it can be traumatic.

The Maze

Maze - Where do you spend your time looking for what you want; It may be the organization you work in, the relationships you have in your life, or the community you live in. Sometimes the corridors and chambers contains delicious cheese, dark corners and blind alleys leads to nowhere, sometimes we are easily get lost, but there’s possibilities that secrets allows better life

Change happens – They keep moving the cheese

Anticipate change – Get ready for the cheese to move

Monitor change – Smell the cheese often so you know when it is getting old

Adapt to change quickly – The Quicker You Let Go Of Old Cheese, The Sooner You Can Enjoy New Cheese

Change – Move with the cheese

Enjoy change! – Savor the adventure and enjoy the taste of new cheese

Be ready to change quickly and enjoy it again and again – They keep moving the cheese

The Handwriting on the Wall

Reflections

Reflect on the different reactions of the mice and the little people.

Life is 10% of what happens to you and 90% of how you react to it.

When change happens is it as sudden as we think or are there clues?

Accept the situation: the cheese is gone!

Have faith: you will find new cheese

if you start to search for it

Visualize success: ”it’s the cheeseiest!”

Now Chew on this…

Q: What did the little people have that the mice didn’t have?

A: The ability to reflect on the lessons learned

and apply it for the next time as well as the

opportunity to share it with others.

Change can be a positive thing

As leaders we are to be flexible and adaptable

No one admits they fear change but think everyone around them does – denial.

Old cheese is sometimes old behavior –

new cheese is a new or renewed

relationship

Or, are there other possibilities?

…characters who are not in the best-selling book, Who Moved My Cheese?, by Spencer Johnson, M.D? (1998)

Characters who move their own cheese?

You can learn how to create more

cheese, i.e., more happiness in your

professional life

When you create your own cheese, no one else can move it!

Meet Track and Fan! Be clear about what you want to create MORE of (not less of); In this case, you want to create MORE happiness in your personal and professional life

1. Track it

Notice when you are happy

Also, notice the conditions, the forces,

the factors that support your happiness 2. Fan your happiness

Praise yourself for creating it

Bless it - give license to yourself to continue creating it

Ask yourself to create even MORE of it

Get others to Track and Fan your happiness, i.e., notice and acknowledge your exceptional moments of happiness

As Leaders How Do We Want To Handle Change?

US

Change is often prompted by unseen forces.

Think Back:

Has your cheese ever been moved? Have you ever found new cheese?

As a board of trustee/batch reps or officers, what is one thing you can do to help the whole organization collaboratively create the changes that matter most AND that the organization and the community most want?

What was the most important thing you

learned today?

How will you apply it? That is,

how will you change your DNA?

Decide what you want to do more of

Notice each little instance of its presence

Acknowledge and celebrate each time you notice it

Moral of the Story

Sooner or later, each of us will experience change in our lives, and we will all deal with it in different ways. The ones who move on will have a chance to find a new source of comfort, while those that remain behind are condemned to failure.

Move With The Cheese And Enjoy It!

Let’s Not Waste Our Lessons… There Are People Who Need To Hear Our Stories

SPENCER JOHNSON, MD

Author, Speaker and Management Consultant

The Author

Known for the ValueTales series of children's books, and for his 1998 motivational book Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life, which recurred on the New York Times Bestseller list, on the Publishers Weekly Hardcover nonfiction list.

Co-author of One Minute Manager series of books with management writer Ken Blanchard