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Can Do!: How to Achieve Real Personal Change and Growth
 
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The ability to adapt to the constant changes in personal and professional life is essential in this fast-paced world, and this motivational guide presents practical strategies, techniques, and knowledge to make change both lasting and effective. Whether change is circumstantial or proactive, understanding the characteristics of human behaviour and how it can be shaped is key to sustaining positive transformation. This manual lays the groundwork for changing personal behavior and adapting to new circumstances instead of repeating behavior from previous circumstances, and continues with step-by-step advice on building lasting collective change.

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Personal Change - but my way
 
Review Date: December 21, 2007
Reviewer: Aad Van Den Boogaart, Den Bosch, Netherlands
It amazes me what a market exists on personal growth and self management books. Not only does that amaze me, I also find it totally not appealing or useful for myself. I "can do" better than that I reckon. Then one October afternoon I got this book in CD-ROM format after visiting Ben Tiggelaar's "MBA in one day" seminar (most enlightening and ultra-compact - great!). Listening to it on my way home encouraged me to buy the book. This is not a methodology trick, not a recipe, no golden rules: this is all about listening to yourself, finding your true priorities and choice, and releasing the powers that your environment and yourself hold back. And then it hands you simple and practical tips to help you go your own way - towards your own targets. It's an easy read and an easy reference (I pick it back out of the bookcase every now and then "what was it again that made this trick easy"), but most importantly it lets you realise stuff you will probably have noticed or considered before, and makes that tangible and truly worth going for. Your way, not the highway.
A very practical approach to change
 
Review Date: July 14, 2009
Reviewer: D. H. Liknaitzky, Johannesburg, South Africa
Ben Tiggelaar has written a highly pragmatic book, which outlines a step-by-step approach to implementing personal change. It is a very systematic approach, which starts with identifying the desired future result and the behavioural changes that are needed to reach these results. The next phase involves formulating plans for activating the new behaviours, taking into account resistances and hindrances that may arise. Finally the plans are put into action, results are measured, and success rewarded.

The method is a useful guideline for managing change. In essence, Tiggelaar helps us to make conscious the essential steps in change management that we tend otherwise to gloss over or ignore, thereby undermining our own efforts to transform.

Perhaps what is missing from the approach is the element of 'letting go of the old' as a precursor to embarking on the actual change, which is something that William Bridges deals with well in his work on 'transitions'. Also missing is how change can sometimes happen in an inspired or imaginative or intuitive way that defies the 'rules' or logic of change. But neverteless, Ben Tiggelaar's book belongs on the shelf of any serious change agent.

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