As Good As It Gets AIM ABMTS August 3 & 4, 2006 Liz Kovash & Darlene Reese

70,000 hours

Is It Time For A Change? Have/Do You Experience: Frequent thoughts of calling in sick A feeling of dread Boredom

You feel underappreciated Stuck in the wrong job The BOSS (or co-workers) Is It Time For A Change?

The joy is gone Stress is your middle name Friday is your favorite day Is It Time For A Change?

Benefits Related Reasons: Higher Pay/Better Benefits Location Is It Time For A Change?

Your Options Stay, try to fix it Stay, ride it out Stay, move to another job Leave

Making the Decision Focus on what you’d really like to do Determine what changes you’d like to make Sum up your needs, interests, and values List the rewards/satisfactions you’d like to receive

Factors to Consider Personal economic situation Close to retirement Available benefits Family Job market Are you ready

Staying or leaving means something must change – your attitude or the job.

Warning Signs of Change Come to a fork in the road, decision must be made to stay on the same road or find a new one What choices did we make or not make that brought us to this juncture? Were changes happening around us? Were we paying attention to the changes?

4 Ways We Deal With Change Sense changes are coming Act immediately and acknowledge that change is happening Deny and resist change because we are afraid it will lead to something worse Accept change eventually and adapt

Who Moved My Cheese Two of them do not overanalyze the situation One resists change The third pays no attention to what is going on

Avoiding “As Good As It Gets” Keep life simple, don’t overanalyze, over complicate Recognize little changes Be flexible Move quickly There is always a new avenue Some fear is OK - it’s a warning system, just don’t let it paralyze you No one can force us to change, we have to make our own decision