https://www.enclaria.com/2015/04/21/three-ways-we-make-resistance-more-frustrating-than-it-really-is/ Equipping individuals and teams to influence organizational change Sat, 25 Apr 2015 22:24:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 https://www.enclaria.com/2015/04/21/three-ways-we-make-resistance-more-frustrating-than-it-really-is/comment-page-1/#comment-78684 Sat, 25 Apr 2015 22:24:13 +0000 http://www.enclaria.com/?p=7467#comment-78684 great blog and so true. Time and again I have seen managers get uptight that people ask questions about their proposed change instead of just saying ‘yes’. Questions are great! They aren’t resistance, they are people that are trying to understand in their own way because the manager explained in their way.
So it’s not always even real resistance , it’s clarification, alignment of beliefs, and more often than not its looking for a clearer answer to the question ‘what does this mean for me?’ than the manager gave in their presentation of the change.
I encourage managers to embrace the questioning because at that point people are engaged. Then at least, as you say, there is a chance to collaborate together on the way forward.

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