Want To Lead Massive Change? Learn How To Overcome Emotional Resistance!

If you are a leader and you want to drive change, you will face resistance. It is a good sign. On the other hand, if you encounter no resistance, it is proof you are maintaining the status quo. No resistance, no forward progress.

However, new ideas, approaches and directions threat and unnerve people. We are creatures of habits; we crave certainty. Disruption can disorientate us.

Over the last year, COVID has changed the way, where and how we work. As a result, remote teams are the norm. We have learnt, been resilient and coped with the unexpected. The challenge in the months ahead is how — and to what degree — we return to “normal.”

Having interviewed leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators, it seems clear our future will be a hybrid, part past and what we have learnt on this journey. As a result, leaders will face immense resistance to change going forward.

The lion’s share of this resistance will be emotionally driven. We might like to believe we are rational beings and that cold data grounds all our decisions. But the truth is more complex.

As a leader driving change, require an acute understanding of the emotional aspect of resistance. How people attempt to derail change at its inception implementation and embedding…