Change Management - Employee Change Resistance (Keynote extract)

Most organisatons will encounter resistance to change, whether the change is perceived by employees as impacting them in a positive or negative way. Resistance can take many forms, it can be overt or covert, as well as active or passive. Organisational leaders cannot control the world changing around them, but they should try to understand employee groups within a change and move them quickly towards understanding resistance and acceptance of the change.
Employee Groups involved in a Change Journey
There are three groups of employees in any change management journey: ‘Advocates’, ‘Observers’ and ‘Rebels’. Each group will react differently to organisational change and will have different levels of resistance.
~ Advocates: They tend to embrace and lead change within the organisation.
~ Observers: They will monitor the ‘Advocates’ and assess if the change is actually benefiting them.
~ Rebels: They tend to resist change blindly, even if the change is to their benefit.

“Nothing negatively impacts organisation performance quicker than employees who resist change and who believe that the way they work today is the way they will work tomorrow” ~ Peter F Gallagher

Peter F Gallagher is a Change Management Expert, International Speaker, Author and Leadership Alignment Coach.
Peter speaks on the Leadership of Change®, change management, change leadership alignment and the benefits of change management gamification. As a speaker, Peter has presented strategic transformations leading practice to Government entities, CEO audiences globally, leadership teams and professional membership conferences. For over 30 years, Peter has been helping organisations, leaders and employees change, improve and transform through keynotes, master classes, change management gamification workshops, projects and programmes. The change question set Peter asks all leaders is:

"Do you have a change vision? Are you aligned on your strategic objectives? Are you a high performing team? Does your team have change leadership skills to lead the change or improvement that your organisation is facing?"
He then works with the leadership team to develop a solution.

Publications:
~ Leadership of Change® Volume 1 - Change Management Fables
~ Leadership of Change® Volume 2 - Change Management Pocket Guide
~ Leadership of Change® Volume 3 - Change Management Handbook

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