Life is full of change. Change can come in many forms: from a new job, to a new girlfriend or even choosing a new toothpaste. How you manage and cope with change is a sign of your professionalism and maturity¹.

生活处处充满了变化。变化来自方方面面：一份新工作、结交一个新女友乃至选择一种新牙膏都会带来变化。如何处理和应付变化是你的职业特性和成熟的标志。

Almost everyone finds change stressful. People like to have routines and to stick with things they know well. Change means that those routines are broken and that people have to learn new ways of doing things.

几乎每个人都觉得改变产生压力。人们喜欢常规事务，并且喜欢坚持做他们很了解的事情。改变意味着那些常规被打破了，而且人们需要去学习新的做事方式。

Change is such an important but stressful thing for companies that there is a whole range of professionals - known as Change Management Professionals - who can help your company through a time of change.

改变对于公司来说不仅有压力，而且很重要，于是出现了全范畴的专业人士——称为“改变管理专家”——帮助你的公司度过变更时期。

If changes are well planned, well executed and staff understand the reasons for the changes, it can be profitable² for your company. If staff are not onside for the planned changes they can fight against the change and cause the whole plan to fail.

如果改变计划有方，实施得当，而且员工了解发生改变的原因，那么它可以为你的公司带来效益。如果员工不了解计划中的改变，他们可能会对它发生抵触，从而导致整个计划失败。

Explain the changes carefully to your staff and ensure that they really understand why the changes are important. That way they will feel they are part of the plan and not having some unnecessary changes forced upon them.

向员工仔细地解释有关改变，并且确保他们真正理解这些变化的重要性。这样他们就会感到自己是计划的一个部分，而且不会觉得自己被迫承担不必要的变动。