The seven most creative ways I have seen people use to avoid change include:
- Hide in Plain Sight – volunteer to be part of the pilot for implementing new processes and then quietly drag your heels in the h
ope that it will all blow over and you will look good for volunteering. - Be a ‘Coffee Badger’ – a recent phenomenon as people are being asked to return to company offices. They arrive first thing, say hello to people, drink a coffee and head home to work.
- Substitute Old Tech – when required to use a CAD system, clothing designers continued to use pen and paper and simply faxed designs to suppliers.
- Put Change to a Vote – get your team to vote yes or no to change (you can guess the result).
- Double Entry – continue to enter data on spreadsheets as well as the new IT system (in response to early teething problems with the new tech).
- Feed School Kids Junk Food – mothers famously handing kids fast food through the school railings in the lunchbreak (following the healthy school dinners campaign by Jamie Oliver).
- When two universities merged, academics simply ignored the change and carried on as if nothing had happened.
- What’s your best example?
Without people changing there is no change. To avoid the above we need to take the pain out of change. See www.5forcesofchange.com for details.
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