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Your Perceptual Style and Change
Change is constant; it's part of your daily life. There are changes in the weather, the economy, relationships, work situations, etc. Just living each day and aging brings change.
Some changes are surprises, some changes you initiate, and some changes just feel inevitable.
That's why adaptability is a critical life skill.
Adaptability is defined as the ability to adjust to new conditions or circumstances. Tapping into your strengths related to your adaptability can mean the difference between excessive worry and stress versus dealing with changes on your terms.
There isn't just one way to be adaptable. The real key to adaptability is knowing what is comfortable for you and how to establish that comfort level with the changes in your life.
This is where Perceptual Style Theory™, created by Gary M. Jordan, PhD, and Lynda-Ross Vega, comes in. It defines six unique Perceptual Styles.
Perceptual Style represents a unique grouping of fundamental aspects of being human that results in a distinctive experience and characteristic behaviors and each of the six Perceptual Styles has a unique skill set that allows them to recognize and adapt to change.
Let's take a look at the ways that each of the different Perceptual Styles deal with Change:
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You view change as just another part of life to be experienced.
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You believe that there are stable fundamental patterns and that change is just different variations of these basic patterns.
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You are comfortable with change and use it to stay interested, stimulated, and involved.
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While you enjoy novelty, you are disturbed by anything that challenges or threatens to change the fundamental patterns you know to be true.
ADJUSTMENTS
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You recognize the inevitability of change.
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You prefer to approach change incrementally, proceeding through well-defined steps to a well-defined objective.
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You know how changing even minor details can have dramatic effects and a significant impact.
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While you distrust wholesale or capricious change, you are skilled at introducing change in the least disruptive manner.
FLOW
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you distrust radical change.
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You experience change as a significant disruption to harmony and cooperation.
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You are aware of the ripple effect of change across the entire environment and its unintended impact on people’s lives.
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You believe that any necessary change must be planned out well in advance of implementation, with all the consequences thought through and people prepared gently and sensitively.
GOALS
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You are a champion for change.
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You are stimulated by the challenge inherent in finding new ways to do something.
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You are quickly bored with repetition and routine as you experience both as being without challenge.
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You will alter, rethink, and completely revamp processes that work well simply because you find them stale or stagnant.
METHODS
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You view change as an inevitable alteration necessary to respond to and accommodate new facts.
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You do not understand the need for bold sweeping changes and experience them as foolish and unnecessary.
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You view change initiated without solid analysis as inefficient, wasteful, and harmful.
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You do not accept a proposed change immediately. You need time to consider the relevant pros and cons before deciding to adapt or resist.
VISION
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You see change as inevitable and desirable.
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You believe that new opportunities and advantages only arise when things change.
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You believe that resisting change is futile and wastes time that could be better spent shaping the change to your advantage.
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You move towards a broadly defined vision of the future and often discount the impact and disruption of change to the people around you.
Which style did you identify with most? Not Sure?
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