Transition

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Your brain craves clean transition.
The world around you has helped build evidence that transitions are clear-cut.
From graduating school to reading a book, the notion of transition has been reinforced with the turn of a page or the passing of a diploma.


Your heuristic model around transition includes an expectation of a binary start and stop.
Your memory reinforces this model: you remember major transition moments as a single event.
You also are aware that none of this is accurate; yet your processing models do not change.


Transition is often muddy and complex.
Transition at work frequently means doing part of two roles for an indeterminate amount of time.
Transition engages your emotional process as well as your executive function seeking to create meaning around the change.


As a leader, you often are further along the path in processing transition than your team.
Remember to allow the space for them to navigate the complexity at their own pace.
This also means reminding them to give themselves that space because their expectation will be for a clear-cut transition



Coffee now transitions to the pumpkin stage,
- Morning Cup

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