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Resistance to Change

Understand and overcome barriers

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Wind of Change, Resistance to Change, Leadership Challenges  

Why Do People Resist Change?

Most people don't like change because they don't like being changed, don't like their comfort zone being penetrated, and prefer to avoid unexpected results.

  

 
 

When change comes into view, fear and resistance to change follow – often despite its obvious benefits.

 

Enemies of Change

  

 
Vadim Kotelnikov inspirational speaker creative problem solving

If you create something unseen before,
prepare to address challenges unmet earlier

~ Vadim Kotelnikov

  

Here is the key difference between losers and winners:
winners approach impossible as possible; losers approach possible as impossible.

Happy people create positive change; unhappy people fear change.

  

 
 

"If you want to make enemies, try to change something." ~ Woodrow Wilson

"Why this reluctance to make the change? We fear the process of reeducation." ~ Isaac Asimov

"People don't resist change. They resist being changed!" ~ Peter Senge

  

Why Change Fails

How To Overcome Resistance To Change

KoRe 10 Tips

Ask Learning SWOT Questions

  

 

 
 

According to Phil Baguley, the author of Performance Management, resistance emerges when there s a threat to something the individual values and wants to protect. The threat may be real or it may be just a perception. It may arise from a genuine understanding of the change or from misunderstanding, or even almost total ignorance about it.

  

Leading Change

How To Motivate Employees To Embrace Change

6Ws of Change Management

  

 
 

People fight against change because they:

don't think that the change makes sense, or
don't understand the change and its implications, or

fear the unknown, or

fear to lose something they value, or

don't want to leave their comfort zone, or

avoid the unexpected by staying with the comfortable, or

find it difficult to cope with either the level or pace of the change, or

are not enthused by the leader.

Resistance to Change in the Workplace

Human and Organizational Barriers

Inertia. All organizations suffer from inertia to some degree and try to maintain status quo. Change requires effort, oftentimes, a significant one. So, don't underestimate the power of fatigue and burnout... More

  

 
   

Know How To Overcome Resistance To Change

 

  

 
Leonardo da Vinci advice

It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

Leonardo
da Vinci

 
Socrates Teachings

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

Socrates

 
 

Be Patient, Yet Persistent

Usually, an individual needs from 1 to 3 days to absorb a new idea. They need to 'sleep on the idea' to give the more powerful superconscious mind  to wake and assess all threats and possibilities.

Give people time to digest a new idea. People always resist change, new ideas and new courses of action, even if the ideas are good for them. However, if they have an opportunity to digest these ideas for a few days, they may accept them with enthusiasm.

  

Change Management

Yin-Yang Strategies

Leading vs. Managing

Lead Change by Asking Questions

Change Program

Exceed the Desired Results

  

 
 

Example: British Petroleum

Employees resisted the organizational transformation initially. David Falvey spent two years in discussions with various groups of employees. The change was more orchestrated than directed by him. The members of the organization brought about change for themselves.