Resistance to Change Fear of Punishment for Incompetence
If it takes you a long time to learn the new way of thinking and doing things, you fear being punished for your lack of productivity.
If it takes you a long time to learn the new way of thinking and doing things, you fear being punished for your lack of productivity.
We all get stuck in the explanation mode. Forgetting that progress towards meaningful goals is the driver of innovation and motivation.
The Current Method / Better Way Matrix is a team tool that can stretch peoples minds and assumptions to Enable Innovation and create a comfort level that allows for breakthrough ideas to happen.
It’s the first team-building exercise in which I’ve been involved that I actually enjoyed the activities and saw a purpose behind them.
There is a false belief that the actions and behaviors we see in the present have always happened, and that they must continue. While problems are important and must be acknowledged, the more effective focus is to determine the solution – what we want to have happen. This happens through a solution focused process of looking for exceptions and finding already existing small steps to take.
Facilitated a train-the-trainer team building and leadership development program with Stevens Institute of Technology orientation leaders.
If performance metrics are established based upon the “feeling of the manager” then you will achieve misery, anger and fear…which is mutually exclusive of engagement.
This program provided me with a new perspective on leadership and communication. The facilitators really challenged us to think creatively, to work together to solve complicated problems using new methods, and most importantly, to reflect on how to positively change our tactics individually in order to become more effective leaders and communicators.
Great discussions and smart fun challenging people – that makes TeamBuilding & Leadership work.
Your organization and work are changing around you, whether you want it to or not.
Having an understanding of how this change takes place, the steps that people go through and the systems-that-drive the negative and positive behaviors to this change are requisite to this change lasting or fading away.