Care for Change?
Musidora Jorgensen
Chief Impact Officer | Building Trust | Transforming Markets | Creating Change
At an event that I was speaking at last week, a great question was posed to me;
“As changemakers, do we need to get everyone to care about Climate Change, or, should we just be focusing on making it easier for everyone to change?”
What a great question. In my view, both go hand in hand.
Change is hard.
If we are to avoid the worst consequences of the Global Climate Crisis, the scale of the global systemic change that we all face into, is significant. And everyone needs to play a part in that change; governments, industries, business, individuals. So collectively, we not only need to understand what we need to do, but care about our part in changing the course for humanity and for the planet.
And whatever it is that we’re trying to change, be that personally or otherwise, we often need support along the way to ensure that not only we get the outcome that we want, but for that change to be embedded into our new ways of being/working/living – after all, we all know how easy it is to slip back into the old way of doing things and the promise of “I’ll get round to it again soon”. This is where the changemakers of the world play such a crucial role.
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Caring and certainty
Studies in human behaviour show that people care about themselves, and their own problems first and foremost. We also know that as humans, we prefer certainty to uncertainty and as research shows, are more willing to wait for delayed rewards when we believe that that reward, however delayed it is, is certain.
And with the ever increasingly worrying news that comes daily – such as the world’s hottest day on record this week - ?at times the problem can seem completely overwhelming and can create huge uncertainty.
Building-up our knowledge on what’s happening with the Climate Crisis, and enabling ourselves and others to take action, is key to developing a culture - both in our workplaces and outside - of caring about it.
A fantastic World Economic Forum article this week outlines the importance of climate education being at the top of the agenda to both inspire and skill-up the future workforce on mitigation, energy policy, social justice, indigenous knowledge and environmental reconstruction. Caring can lead us to actively seeking opportunities for innovation as well as embracing the new ideas we need to create a better future.
As the saying goes “we can’t drift our way to success – we’ve got to navigate our way there”. And so we must collectively set our sails to certainty. Changemakers are not only helping to set the course but navigating and making it easy for us change in the process.
Would love to know what you think? Does everyone need to care or do we just need to focus on making it easier for people to change? Let me know in the comments below.
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Chief Impact Officer | Building Trust | Transforming Markets | Creating Change
1 年Thank you for the inspiration and reply Simon Enright ???? https://www.dhirubhai.net/posts/simonenright_changemakers-globalclimatecrisis-changemanagment-activity-7083951991629983744-psGH?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
I help customers understand how they can deploy AI safely in customer and employee experience use cases.
1 年Nice question! I think ‘caring’ can have multiple definitions, for me it’s about increasing my knowledge and insights, so that in everyday life there’s small things that you can change for the better. Clearly some change requires big shifts in all sorts of things like policy and technology that we might think are beyond our personal influence, but there are also changes we can make ourselves, like small changes in our purchasing behaviours; these things can add up and help increase momentum for change. So Caring will help naturally create change. The more we Care the more motivated we are to change and more likely we collectively adapt.
Strategy and Change, Director. AstraZeneca. MBA. ? One Young World Delegate 2023 ? Transformation and Business Improvement | Strategy | Organisational Change | Business Operations | Leadership and Culture.
1 年Awesome article! Very thought provoking and agree, both are important. Painting a positive vision for the future is a part of unlocking both wider support and making the steps needed feel less insurmountable
ESG Sustainability Director
1 年Great question Musidora ?? A durable transformation requires both “inspire” and “engage” levels: 1) Lead by example (inspire other companies / they need to see leaders’ concrete results) 2) Generate accessible tools / systems / communities for engaging other companies ( why “reinvent the wheel “ instead of “spin it better “ / inspire companies to use & adapt “it” as per their needs and facilitate their feedback on results & share key learning). As a start ??
Agile Practitioner, SaaS, AI, LLM, IoT, Cybersecurity, NetZero | Ph.D. | PMI-ACP? | ISC2 CC? | Cyber Essentials Assessor | IASME Cyber Assurance Assessor
1 年Forced behavior change can often be met with resistance and limited long-term impact. Making sustainable choices easier, more accessible, and frictionless is key to driving widespread change. Technology plays a crucial role in this regard, as it can seamlessly integrate sustainability into people's daily lives and decision-making processes. By combining technology with user-centered design, we can create meaningful and lasting change at scale.