Change Management

I remembered I took this module - Change Management in my final semester as a student. If I wasn't wrong, I scored an A -grade for it. Weirdly, one and a half year on, I am taking it again. This time, a practical course.

Whatever that was discussed in the past on employee unhappiness, low staff morale, lack of direction and vision in an organisation, the lack of a positive culture, etc, all are now being enacted in front of my very eyes.

It surely doesn't feel good to be in a situation where the entire organisation is going through a major upheaval. It adds to the emotional strain of the employees when the change management team is not doing much to allay the fears of the people by telling them the truth.

I remembered a course where I attended. The course instructor didn't say anything profound, but he just said it plainly. "You may say a lot of things, but those lot of things doesn't really matter, unless it is the truth." Yes, people may grieve over it, rant over it, but at the end of the day, they can pick up and move on. When the truth is witheld, the entire organisation will be in a frenzy. How true. It is what I am looking at now.

The way I see it, strengthens my stand on one thing. Everything may be shaken in life, the security of the job, the changes in people and the organisation. One thing still stays the same, still stays stable, unchanged - the character of God, and His promises laid out.

God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth will give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging. Psalm 46:1-3

How apt. His direction and purpose is what that keeps His people assured and at peace despite the upheavals around us. I may not know exactly His plan for me, but I sense it is unfolding and I'd find the answer to the reason why I am still here, soon.