Risk and change, like love, in the eye of the beholder

In all aspects of business and life, value is created from difference and difference is created by being willing to embrace uncertainty – take risks.

Taking risks requires things to be done differently and is at the starting line of any planned organisational change such as a decision to build new, acquire and integrate, restructure, reorganise etc.

Making informed decisions to try to create value from uncertainty and to see through the organisational and personal consequences of those decisions is work done by people who all have different starting dispositions when faced with risk and change.  Assuming decision-makers are the same when it comes to personal attitudes to risk and change is the first delusion. Planning projects to deliver change assuming that the recipients of change will all ‘see’ things in the same way is the second delusion.

So, is there something we can do quickly and effectively to break into such delusional traps?

There is no quick fix to people learning how not to sabotage their own investments in risk and change, but insight comes before action and the Risk Type Compass™is quick and easy to use but really insightful.  Over my 30+ years of helping clients take ‘eyes open’ risks and lead effective change, I have not come across a better psychometric test that helps people understand how their perceptions, like love, are theirs and not necessarily shared.

Interested to learn more?  On 20thNovember, I will be joining Geoff Trickey, the psychologist who pioneered the work on Risk Type, and others to share case studies of how clients have worked with the Risk Type Compass to understand how to stop personal dispositions and team similarities or differences sabotaging strategic plans.

For more information, you can contact me on ruth@potentiality.uk or on 07974 943443, or book on to the session on the 20thNovember 2019 via this link https://www.psychological-consultancy.com/risk-type-summit/