Maybe you´ve tried some of the skills you learned on the course. Some went well, others didn´t. slowly your energy drained and you fell back into the old tracks.

True or false, ask yourself why you´re not doing the things you promised yourself to do at the course. You promised to keep in touch with your classmates, but you didn´t. A few maybe, but honestly, is it because they contribute with support and competence in your work or because they became good friends on a personal level? All right, I´ll stop the provoking now, I just want to prove the point that we are usually better at creating bad excuses rather than face the fact that we weren´t able to translate the knowledge into new more effective results in the business, at least not to the level we thought possible at the time of the course. It doesn´t mean we´re bad people, just that the load of change is heavy, too heavy to carry alone.

So why do we fail? I can think of two reasons.  The first is lack of strategy and plans; the other is lack of communication. You set out to do something, but you´re not fully prepared on a strategic and tactical level. You don´t communicate enough with your organization what you intend to do and foremost why you want to do it. As I said before, change is a heavy load, the bigger the heavier. If you want people to help you carry, they will want to know why and what´s in it for them at the end of the journey.

I have no idea where you are or what you do. Compare your situation with the one described here. If you´ve already done something and feel you´re enroute, be proud. If you haven´t and don´t sympathize, well, don´t do it, it´s a free world. If you think something´s wrong or unclear, comment, start a discussion.  I care about your comments, your questions, thoughts, and ideas.