Dealing with Resistance to Change

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Dealing with Resistance to Change

- MAINTAINING STATUS QUO means living and working within the known and the comfort zone.
- CHANGE means going beyond frontiers of the known, learning to work with new challenges.
- RESISTANCE TO CHANGE means avoiding newer responsibilities of learning and coping.
Those who tend to take ownership of the processes welcome change and those who work as servants resist changes.
From this perspective, facilitating the team to take ownership of processes is a critical core to work through resistance.

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		2 mary South Africa
	Managing People Who Resist your Suggestions At times it's a challenge to manage people who are uncooperative. And you may be in the situation that you don't have a strong support structure as a manager. What is the best way of dealing with such situations?

		2 Simon Lum, Australia
	Managing People Who Resist Change @Mary: When people are engaged and involved in the change there will be less or no resistance. People resist when change happens to them rather than they being involved in the change, because then there's no ownership. When people are forced to change, that change may not be sustainable.

		2 Abdourahmane DIOP Management Consultant, Senegal
	Facilitating Ownership of Process to Deal with Resistance to Change Facilitating the team to take ownership of process" is a formula which is very difficult to give a concrete meaning. In fact, resistance to change, rather than refusing newer responsibilities, means uncertainty about the future? Considering that, the best way to deal with the matter is to share information and collect any opinions that appear in opposition of the change project. Those are important inputs that are to be taken into account to conceive the messages which will bring clearness and serenity to all shareholders. Very often, resistance to change is merely due to lack of information or frustration due to non-association in the process of decision making.

		1 Mrs.Sayran Ghafuri,Kittani Coach, Iraq
	Dealing with Resistance in your Department @mary: Agreed, if you are a manager at the lower or middle level, you may not have the authority to apply changes, because you must first obtain the approval of the general manager, or because your change process needs a financial budget. Even if your proposal for change leads to a reduction in cost, time and effort.