Often resistance to change is just the lack of clarity.
Taking the time to be clear on what the goal or end of the process will look like and defining with clarity what is expected can be enough to move people and yourself into action.
Team Building happens when the team has a shared purpose (goal) and the accountability of the team, team leader and team members is defined, shared and known. As this is shared and known each person has the necessary knowledge and ability to do their best work and be a fully contributing team member.
“Stuckness” is incredibly common amongst teams. It may come from a myriad of problems and knowing the problem does not necessarily give us a solution.
This is an important concept in the world of organization development, teams, and managerial-leadership…Understanding how different people view rules and managements role in the rules informs our work ethic and idea of control over our work.
Organizations that lack an understanding and sense of accountability, make employees feel like they are being asked to swim world record times in a pool of Jello. Everyone is trying really hard BUT the system-of-work is forcing them to push harder and gain little progress.
Acknowledging the problem AND developing a shared understanding of the goal to be achieved. Then working backward to accomplish this goal by carefully and pragmatically searching through the organization, team and / or persons real-life and work experience to identify exceptions of when the solution is already happening or could possibly happen in the future.
A persons behaviors can become extreme as a sign of an inept manager-employee situation. As a manager you must have the capacity to complete the required responsibilities, if your capacity is lacking then effective management cannot take place.
There is one condition that I consider to be more important than the rest, and it is the foundation of “People join companies and leave managers.”
Optimum Manager-Subordinate Distance.
What would you do right now if you could do whatever you wanted to?
Because if you don’t know what you would do, if you could do whatever you wanted to. How in the world can you know what you would do under constraints?
We all have problems, every team has problems, every organization has problems I have not yet met a manager yet who doesn’t have problems…
The amazing thing about the amount of problems we face is that there are just as many solutions – some you have already found and some you just got to look for.
It has happened to all of us, someone at work (your manager, coworker, subordinate, peer, vendor, customer, etc…) pisses you off and you go off an angry tirade about how resistant and uncooperative they are.
On and on and on.
While these statements may be true, they are not really useful in creating any solutions and changes to getting your work done.