Losing your peer group

• Major changes often lead to large scale departures.
• It's normal to mourn the loss of valued colleagues.
• You have shared a lot with them, they are part of your identity. Memories make up your identity, including those of colleagues.
• Can you maintain contact with them, thinking of their departure as a way of expanding your network? You might still need them.
• Is there a danger that you could reject your new colleagues?
• How can you avoid becoming isolated?
• Newcomers will form relationships with each other and your effectiveness will decline if you're too distant.
• You might be tempted to criticize them, feeling that you and your colleagues wouldn't have done it their way.
• This approach runs the risk of locking you in the past.
• To be part of the future, can you focus on the positive qualities of your new colleagues? And overlook how they differ?
• How can you build on their newness to help them and you move forward?
• Diversity facilitates growth - essential for meeting new challenges.
• How can you foster further diversity and be a key part of the future?