RE: Re: Introductions

Unless I'm just very unique, one of the issues for folks may be the way most
corporate "change management" courses are design.  In the big companies I've
been associated with, I've found that the courses are designed to teach
employees how to be accepting of the inevitable change -- rather than
teaching responsible introduction of change, tools for shaping the change,
and channels for resisting when appropriate.

Ronald E. Thompson III
Director of Product Delivery
govONE Solutions
(720) 332-3654
(303) 470-6922
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  -----Original Message-----
  From: Dale Emery [mailto:[email protected]]
  Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2003 2:33 PM
  To: [email protected]
  Subject: Re: [resistance] Re: Introductions


  Hi Wayne,

  > Regarding resistance, I recall something you said once. I don't
  > remember where, maybe PSL or Leaders' Forum.  But it stuck with
  > me and I have quoted you (with proper credit) on several
  > occasions. You said something like, "People don't fear change
  > so much as they fear loss."

  I think that was Leader's Forum 1995, in a sesssion that was
  essentially one of my first resistance workshops.

  Now I need to give proper credit.  I was summarizing an idea from
  William Bridges' book /Managing Transitions/.  After briefly
  describing three examples of "resistance," Bridges says, "It
  isn't the /changes/ themselves that people in these cases resist.
    It's the losses and endings that they experience and the
  /transition/ that they are resisting."

  > If this is true, and I believe it is, one way resistance could
  > be a resource is to alert us to perceived losses.

  Yes.  So one of the things I want to explore is how people's
  responses give information about what losses they may be
  perceiving.  Sometimes it's easy.  "I can't do that!  My manager
  would fire me!"  Sometimes it's more subtle.

  Dale

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