In the walking world, I am a type of personnel trainer who works to improve organisations through developing skills in key people and small groups. Often the challenges faced are that of managing changes that affect tasks, processes and the acceptance of them by employee and management layers.

I have a varied selection of clients but one of my main is a large, long-standing, traditional manufacturing business that has been going through dramatic changes over the last five years. There have been changes at all levels but not at all locations simultaneously.

The location I am based at is ground zero for many changes and trials which means it is an incubator of sorts and the people there have grown accustomed to the dynamic environment but it took a change in mindset. At other locations though, the changes are spreading much slower as they are chosen and implemented depending on the specific needs of a factory and not all changes are required across the board but, many are and they generally have a staggered rollout process.

What is interesting is how one change can be adopted much quicker in some locations over others and what this comes down to is culture of the location. The longer a place hasn't shifted, the slower it will shift.

At these places they have the tendency to think they know what is best and that is what they have always done. Change is unwelcome and quickly dismissed by members, especially those who have the longest history of doing what they have been doing uninterrupted. There is a lot of change resistance as you can expect.

What is interesting to note though is that without this history, change is not change at all, it is just process.

If any one of these people who were resistant to change suddenly found themselves unemployed because their company collapsed, their history is wiped clean. If the next day they were at an interview for a new job in a new company and were offered the exact same tasks that the change process had offered, they would accept terms because the new company is expected to have differing processes.

What this means is if a new person walks into a company the day after large changes, they carry no history and will accept, learn and conform to the processes naturally and without resistance while the workers beside them may struggle. Of course, the culture of the older workers tends to try to influence the newer and say how good the past was and how bad things are now.

What I wonder is that if one had a clean slate, no knowledge or history of Steem a few days ago, would the current terms be acceptable. My experience says, yes.

My history tells me that I myself would accept the terms because when I arrived on Steem almost two years ago, I came in blind and enjoyed myself while my vote was worth nothing despite having hundreds and then a couple thoudand Steem, and my posts earned very low amounts. Hf19 changed the voting values and my posts do earn more now due to a lot of work put in and a lot of luck.

People at the moment are talking about new members struggling but it is projection. The same arguments were floating around when I arrived by older members as things changed saying that people like me would struggle if this or that happened. But the reality is that they were the ones who would struggle if they were unwilling to accept the latest shifts and adapt. Many adapted, many didn't. I had already accepted.

There are many changes to come and not all are going to be friendly to all positions which means that someone who is planning to be here long- term has to accept that they are likely going to have to adapt their approach in some way, at some time.

An employee in a firm for 40 years is not so common these days but the ones who are successful are those who have rolled with the punches and adopted and adapted quickly. Those on Steem are going to go through changes at a much faster rate than any traditional business environment though.

So, if this was your first day on Steem and you had no history, given whatever resources you currently have, do you accept the terms? What do you need to learn to get up to speed, what opportunities do you have and where are you going to invest your time?

Don't worry too much about the people to come because when they arrive they will accept terms at that point or not. It is up to those here now of course to build a place they want to be a part of but, us projecting our pasts onto the future is rarely helpful as it assumes that they know what we have experienced and assumes we know what they will accept, which is impossible.

The sun is up, you are here.

Taraz
[ a Steem original ]
_{(posted from phone)}