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This chart illustrates 11 or more choices that present themselves to each individual at various stages of experiencing the stress of change and transition.   It could be a new job, business decisions, family status change, or even a new policy at the exercise club.  Considering that leaders, managers and staffers experience change at different times, and may transition at different rates (there are personality based measures for that), it is no wonder that complexity science is mentioned when dealing with change.

So the next time you are contemplating adapting to a change given to you, with or without your participation, or perhaps implementing such a change yourself, here's a good visual that could serve as a reminder of the little guy jumping around with such emotions as anxiety, happiness, threat, and denial with a host of questions in tow.  Could that person be you?

--Deb