You may know that Nyman Group is a licensee of some of the great programs developed by the Center for Creative Leadership. An article from last year in their Leading Effectively e-newsletter caught our attention. It addressed the fact that different people manage change, even extreme change, in highly diverse ways. Why is that? And how can an understanding of how people assimilate change differently aid your own efforts?

The article was an interview with Dr. Christopher Musselwhite, creator of the “Change Style Indicator,” a tool based on data from 100,000 people. According to Dr. Musselwhite, people fall into one of three change style types: conservers, originators, and pragmatists. Check out the article — which one are you?

While the interview is now about a year old, change management seems to be even more important these days — especially in a number of industries such as financial, health care, and automotive. From our standpoint at Nyman Group, the underlying denominator here is AMBIGUITY. While there is no certain roadmap for success when it comes to leading in periods of unprecedented change, we believe that the most successful leaders are able to leverage uncertainty to their advantage.