What’s your theory of change? Evolution or Revolution?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness
Ever wondered what your theory of change is? How do you believe change happens?
If you’re a learning and development specialist then you’re out to change – change minds, expand learning, influence behaviour. Face it, you’re a changemaker.
One way to look at change is on a continuum with evolution at one end and revolution at the other. Which you liken change to:
- evolution: change happens best as a slow, gradual process, like a river washing over and eventually shaping the rocks that line its bed
- revolution: change happens best when it’s in your face, abrupt, obvious and stark
- or are you somewhere in the middle of the two?
Check out Alicia Kritsonsis’ ‘Comparison of Change Theories’ article, California State University. Click on the link & then click on article of same name to download it.
If you know your theory of change you’ll be more likely to effect it as a trainer.
(This is one of the resources from the recent Rock.Paper.Scissors e-newsletter interviewing global change agent Sara Mitaru.)
Tags: alicia kritsonsis, change, change theory, effecting change, learning & development, sara mitaru
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