What is different?
Unique is one of those loaded words to use to describe yourself or your course. On the one hand you cannot say you are entirely unique, as you have built your material on the back of other people’s hard work, as these fine artists say.
“The only art I study is stuff I can steal from”
“Art is theft”
Pablo Picasso
Then on the other hand your unique combination of genes, life experience, your upbringing and natural skills, means you and the DYLOP course will be unique.
Below are 3 reasons that will help add substance to this existentialism.
What is indeed unique about Design Your Life on Purpose (DYLOP)?
It combines Organisational Change Management (OCM) with Personal Coaching
It is wholistic – treating you as a whole human being with responsibilities
It has been developed over 7 years and way over $77,000 has been invested, so you do not need to
Combines Organisational Change Management and Personal Coaching
DYLOP combines two areas of knowledge and expertise Organisational Change Management (OCM) and Personal Coaching.
Organisational Change Management (OCM) is the ability to move an organisation from current situation to future desired situation. It can be a sub part of the organisation or the whole organisation. It is super fun and challenging at times, but you learn a lot about people and their reaction to change, which isn’t always bad btw.
There are skills, techniques and strategies that you use to help people move through change. Often it is viewed at 50,000 feet that you are moving the whole organisation as one, when in fact each person needs to choose to change. So, you need to appeal to the masses and to each individual at the same time.
From my bio, you will see that I have been doing OCM for some time. What you might not appreciate is that my experience spans organisations, industries and different types of change, e.g system, cultural, process, compliance change. Applying the same skills and techniques and strategies, but adapting them for each organisation and its unique needs.
This translates to an understanding of change as it applies to different industries, different work cultures, different demographics and basically every version of humans you can think of. That is some deep knowledge right there, and here are some stats to really drive it home.
I have loved working with:
18 Organisations
32 Projects/Programs
3,500 Workshop attendees
75,000 People impacted by the implemented changes
Development of 99 OCM strategies
Personal Coaching is where you work with people one on one to help them create change in some aspect of their life, helping them towards a desired future state. (see the parallels).
Inevitably in every organisational change, you will also need to do personal coaching. It could be with executives on how to sell the change and gain confidence of the organisation and their program teams working on getting the thing done. It could be coaching team members that are melting down from the pressure of embarking on this change, or it could be coaching people, who are passively or actively resisting.
Apart from coaching in the organisational change perspective I love collaborating with individuals who want to do something different, whatever that different is.
Some of my techniques and strategies are different to Organisational Change Management and some the same. Early on in my Org Change Career, I realised that coaching skills would help me be better and I would be a better coach, as a result of my organisational skills.
Both organisational and individual change draws on aspects of positive psychology, Neuroscience, personal productivity, strategy, human centred design, facilitation, project management and governance and a host of other fields and skills. Pulling together the right combination for an organisation or this individual is what makes it super fun.
It is Wholistic
DYLOP is a wholistic approach to your life, treating you as whole human being. Your family or personal circumstances will absolutely affect where you can place your energy and time. So, it works with where you are and what you have right now.
Once the course is complete, even 1 hour a week will continue to move you forward towards your dreams. It does not matter if you are working full time, part time, just getting by or in your dream job, it suits all.
My Investment – so you do not have to
I cannot remember a time when I was not looking at ways to improve. It started to crystallise when I started working in organisations in 1992. I now know that what I attributed to constructive discontent is actually an inherent talent called “maximiser” (see more about strengths at Clifton’s Strength Assessment).
“Steal like an Artist”
I am always looking at ways to be a better human, and to get more from this life, a burning desire to leave a legacy.
I have calculated, over the last 10 years alone – when I started working on DYLOP in earnest – I have invested well over $9,500 per year in this space. So, $66,000 over 7 years, at least.
Why am I telling you this? I am telling you this, so you do not have to invest as much. I have distilled what is good and jettisoned what does not work. I did not start this with you in mind, just selfishly for me.
What has dawned on me through my roles in Organisational Change Management and Coaching, is that this helps people, a lot. If it can help someone, then I share it.
Sharing works best when it is relevant and applicable to the person at that time. When it is adapted to suit a person or an organisation, then it becomes a collaboration, creatively solving problems to create a desired future state.
That is why my company is called Incahoots – I work “in-cahoots” with you and/or your organisation.
My Word for 2020 was Forge – it was about making this work enduring, the 7 years and over $77,000 have culminated in DYLOP. This becomes all for nought if I do not share it, which is where my word for 2021 comes in – Electrify.
Electrify is about injecting DYLOP with energy, so it sparks, guiding you so you can stop deferring your dreams, unearth possibilities and develop your strategic life map, answering the question – now what?
Electrify has also been about automation and making decisions in my business, so that I can show up with my best energy. Outsourcing some more admin tasks, as well as adding automation in to make my life easier. It has also been around focusing on my exercise plan, so I can be strong and energetic when creating and updating content, as well as Electrifying when I am delivering.
Bottom Line
Bottom Line is… I know CHANGE. I know how to plan for change, how to start change, how to adjust change in progress, how to track change and how to embed change.
When you attend a DYLOP program you will be gaining the collective wisdom, that has been condensed and distilled from over 20 years of experience, from both Organisational Change Management and Personal Coaching.
You are getting the research, and investment to designing your desired future state. You are getting a wholistic approach that is focused uniquely, on you, your personal Strategic Life Map that suits you and no one else.
Yours Collaboratively,
Christina MM
So, what does this mean for you?
Join me on the next program for Design Your Life on Purpose program on Saturday the 6th November, so can leverage the uniqueness and create your own unique Strategic Life Map.
I keep the program size limited to 12 pathfinders, as I want to make sure you get the attention you need to create a Strategic Life Map that suits you perfectly.
READY TO SIGN UP for Design your Life on Purpose (DYLOP) program
DYLOP is designed to guide professionals who have deferred their dreams, to unearth possibilities and design their strategic life map answering the question - now what?
“We all need this. Don't waste time being aimless”
Julianna Canale - Executive Manager, Westpac
“It was my time and I was giving myself permission to invest in me”
Deb C - Connexia Change Management Practice Director
“Do it. Even if they sort of know their path its' such a great exercise and it triggers your brain. Even more so for someone that is a bit lost - Everyone can do it.”
Frida Eriksson-Moussa
Bring a friend
Everything is better with friends, so if you bring a friend along then you both get a bonus one on one coaching session. Each person will work on their own Strategic Life Map and they can choose to share or not. The session is all about you and what you need and is strictly confidential. Giving you all my focus and attention to help accelerate your dreams.
READY TO GO!
If you are ready to create a Strategic Life Map that suits YOU personally.
Is this the year that you start designing a life that suits you perfectly?
Yes, then lock the Saturday the 6th November in your calendar and register right now. I would love to see you there and see what amazing things you can achieve in the next 12 months.
All the information is here, including the magical registration button.
Incahoots exists…
To guide professionals who have deferred their dreams, to unearth possibilities to design a strategic life map that answers the question - now what?
About this Christina Morgan-Meldrum (CMM) person
I am coach, facilitator, author, change professional and creative. I particularly love helping people and organisations unearth what’s possible to design a future that suits them perfectly (a Strategic Lifemap).
I have cultivated the ability to walk into any industry; see what is not seen, distil what is complicated, and simplify the chaos. This skill has been forged in a deliberate and concentrated way for over 20 years, through Personal Coaching and working in Organisational Change Management. Bottom Line is… I know CHANGE. I know how to plan for change, how to start change, how to adjust change in progress, how to track change and how to embed change.
I fill my time on various side hustles, blogging, creating and learning the piano. If you are looking for me, look for me at my spiritual home JB Hi-Fi, exploring stationery stores or artisan markets.