Resistance to Change: Proactive Anticipation

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Note: this is a  five-part series. Read Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 5

by Katherine Sanders and Patrick Farrell

INTRODUCTION

When we have a healthy foundation to build on, we can anticipate resistance before we encounter it. We call this skill proactive anticipation.  Proactive anticipation makes it possible for us to move forward with more ambitious initiatives, more quickly.  We build it in stages:

  • Healthy Foundation
  • Systems Thinking & Scenario Planning
  • Collect Early Indicators
  • List Major & Minor Redirects

These four stages build upon each other, increasing change capacity along the way. We described Healthy Foundation in a previous installment.  We’ll now focus on the other three stages.

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Resistance to Change: Healthy Foundation

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Note: this is a  five-part series. Read Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 4 | Part 5

by Katherine Sanders and Patrick Farrell

INTRODUCTION

A common view of efficiency encourages leaders to focus on the initiative at hand and its immediate results. That approach to efficiency can prevent leaders from noticing the foundational work that would make results easier, more effective, or even possible. Resistance to change, when seen through that lens of efficiency, has leaders focused on it only in the context of a major change activity.

This part of our Resistance to Change series focuses on the seemingly “inefficient” work of building a healthy foundation for change in an organization. With a healthy foundation we are better prepared to take on emerging change initiatives because our entire community can anticipate resistance with less fear and defensiveness.  The healthy foundation positions well-posed resistance as helping to make the change initiative better.

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