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Overcoming Team Resistance to Change

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Resisting change isn't bad will: four blocks to decode so you can lift them.

Decode individual and collective resistance to change. Listen, reassure, negotiate and communicate with your teams so change actually takes hold — and takes hold positively.

20 min at your own paceAvailable in FR + ENNo prerequisites

You will walk away with

  • a map of resistance: individual, collective, organisational
  • a judgement-free way to receive people's instinctive reactions to change
  • the levers that reassure: listening, dialogue, authenticity

Target audience

Any manager or project lead who needs to promote and support change within their organisation.

Learning objectives

  1. Identify and overcome resistance to change
  2. Understand the different causes of resistance to change: individual causes, collective causes, and causes tied to the change itself and how it is led
  3. Receive people's instinctive resistance reactions without judgement
  4. Listen, engage in dialogue, stay authentic and reassure teams to reduce resistance

Module outline

  • StorytellingSatya Nadella at Microsoft1'58How he transformed the company culture by instilling empathy and curiosity to overcome resistance to change
  • Articles
    • Involve resistors instead of subduing them
    • The components of resistance to change (examples and best practices)
  • Expert videoIdentify and Overcome Resistance to Change10'49An overview of the different causes of resistance to change and how to overcome them: individual causes, collective/organisational causes, and causes tied to the change itself and how it is led
  • AnchoringA quiz and True/False questions to dig deeper into the topic and anchor what you've learned
  • Memo cardA downloadable coaching memo card: the key points from the expert video
  • CommitmentConcrete examples to help you define your own commitment

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