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How to help your people adapt to change

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We offer 3 principles to follow that will help you help your people adapt to change

Remember, people’s concerns and reactions to change need to be addressed effectively to help them adapt and become committed to the change

We offer 3 principles to follow when helping your people adapt to change that should help…

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1. Resistance is natural

People can be: Logical Emotional Uncertain Controlling Kind Adversarial

All within 5 minutes.

Expect resistance and train yourself

on how to deal with it.

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2. Human reactions to change are normal

Share the Kübler-Ross Curve to help people understand their reactions to change:

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3. Expect people to go backwards as well as forwards

Change is not linear, for example: people may arrive at acceptance

then move back to anger they may appear to move

forward then regress to denial

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Find out more

Download Our change management methodology whitepaper to find out more about helping the people inside your organisation adapt to change.