Susan Grandfield, SG Development Solutions Our response to change creates our experience of it. So, the question I'll be exploring is "What if your response was to become really curious about the possibilities for you and your business, how might that change your experience? Theme: Great Change Creates Great Opportunity This event explored why businesses need to stay flexible to take advantage of the opportunities and shifts in market conditions.

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4. “Getting Curious about Change”
Susan Grandfield
The Business Journey
30th August 2016
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5. Desire paths
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User Experience
Design

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7. Your business
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 What is most important to your business?
 Certainty?
 Creativity?
 What will have the biggest impact on the future of
your business?

8. Curiosity
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Killers:
 A fear of
consequences
 A need to get things
right
 Needing to know the
answers
 Applying the same
thinking to new
situations
Creators:
 Non-judgemental
communication
 Listening
 Asking questions
 Choice and options
 Strong sense of
purpose

9. Your and your business
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 Why are you in business?
 Why does your business exist?
 What do you stand for?
 What does your organisation stand for?
 What do you contribute?
 What does your business contribute?

10. Questions to ask regularly
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1. What do we know today?
2. If we were truly living our purpose what would
we do next?
3. What do we know about ourselves and our
ability to succeed?

11. A final thought…..
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“Progress is impossible without change, and those
who cannot change their minds cannot change
anything”
George Bernard Shaw
So, what can you get curious about in your
business?

12. Thank you
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