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Leading Change: From Resistance to Alignment
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Leading Change: From Resistance to Alignment

Creating a healthy collective experience of change and transformation
Created byClaire Doody
Last updated 6/2025
English
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What you'll learn

  • Reframe resistance, not as an obstacle to overcome, but as a normal response and a source of intelligence
  • Meet resistance with empathy and curiosity
  • Work with multiple conflicting perspectives and hold the tensions that arise in groups
  • Facilitate a group towards alignment, even if we cannot agree on everything

Course content

5 sections • 12 lectures • 45m total length

  • Why resistance isn't the enemy3:28

    Reframe resistance as a natural part of change, surface concerns, and co-create a healthy path to alignment without demanding agreement, inviting diverse perspectives and addressing fears.

  • Common challenges with stakeholder engagement2:45

    Identify and address common stakeholder engagement challenges, from disengaged and confrontational stakeholders to unintentional and inside job resistance, and apply practical strategies to move toward alignment.

  • Why change is hard (and resistance makes sense)2:52

    Navigate change as hard, and resistance makes sense within complex systems, where uncertainty triggers nervous-system responses. Adopt a curious, compassionate systems view and reflect on uncertainty responses to support others.

Requirements

  • This course is for everyone - no prior knowledge or experience is necessary.

Description

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! 


Who this course is for:

  • This course is for anyone who has encountered resistance to change in the workplace, whether leading a change or transformation initiative, leading a team through change or managing projects in dynamic and fast changing environments.

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