Leading Change: From Resistance to Alignment

If you're involved in leading change, it's likely you've encountered some kind of resistance. It can feel like a huge obstacle getting in the way of progress and slowing down your plans. But here's the thing ... resistance isn’t the enemy. It’s information. It’s insight. And if you know how to work with it, it can be a great asset.

To get from resistance to alignment, we need to create a healthy collective experience of change. This is not about consensus or compliance. It’s not about papering over the cracks or steamrolling the change through. Instead, it’s about surfacing the tensions and figuring out a way to work with them that honors the diverse views of your stakeholders, while achieving the intent of your change project.

In this course, you'll work towards reframing resistance from an obstacle to an asset that you can leverage. You'll develop some practices for showing up as an empathetic and curious change leader. You'll explore a framework for understanding multiple perspectives and you'll learn how to facilitate a group towards alignment. This course contains a reflection journal along with practical tools including a stakeholder perspective mapping template and a facilitation guide.

This course is for you if you're leading a transformation of your team or functional area, or leading on digital transformation, organizational restructuring, ways of working programs, pay transparency, AI adoption, or any other new initiative that might give rise to lots of opinions, emotions and complexity! Sign up now to learn how to meet resistance with coherence and curiosity!