• Menu
  • Skip to right header navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

Enclaria: Influence Change at Work

Equipping individuals and teams to influence organizational change

  • Change Academy
  • Toolkit
  • Free Influence Course
  • Change Academy
  • Toolkit
  • Free Influence Course

99 Ways to Influence Change, #3: Involve people

I often hear (or read) the phrase, “People don’t resist change; they resist being changed.”

No one wants change to be imposed on them to the point of helplessness and lack of control.  If you try, you are headed for a full-on revolt.

Instead, involve people in shaping the change, so it doesn’t feel like it is happening to them, but with them.

  • Ask them to help develop the new process that they will be using in their jobs.
  • Involve them in decisions that will affect them.
  • Invite them to design the report or the tool or the form they will use every day.
  • Find out what else they think should be fixed during the implementation.

Not only will you reduce resistance by giving people some control over their own situation, but the end result will be better because you involved them.

How might you involve people?

Read more of the 99 Ways to Influence Change.

Share
Previous Post: « 99 Ways to Influence Change, #2: Model behavior
Next Post: Make Measures Work »

Primary Sidebar

free five drivers of change video course Get the Free Course

Upcoming Events

  1. Fundamentals of Influencing Change at Work | Online Course

    September 8 - November 17

View All Events

** Change Management Course **

Fundamentals of Influencing Change at Work - Online

eventbanner

Sept 8 - Nov 17, 2022
Register Now

On-Demand Video Course

Unlock Resistance to Change

Unlock Resistance to Change Course

Spark more moments when people stop resisting and embrace change.

Take the Class

Change Toolkit

toolkit image Get the Toolkit

Connect

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • Twitter

Recent Posts

  • How to Sustain Change After You’re Gone
  • The Intersection of Change Management and Design Thinking
  • Adding Change Management to an Existing Project
  • Change Projects vs. Organizational Change
  • The Four Stages of Change Management
Tweets by @heatherstagl

Footer

Let’s Connect!

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • Twitter

Search this Site

Log In

Upcoming Events

  1. Fundamentals of Influencing Change at Work | Online Course

    September 8 - November 17

View All Events

Navigation

Contact
About Enclaria
Blog
Podcast