Resisting The Resistance To Change

Teams are often divided between two groups. One who gets excited about the change and the other who feels a slight resistance towards the change.

The new tool introduced in the project, the new team member who joined the team, the new company that acquired ours, the new laptop given to us or the new desk we moved to. All affect us in one or the other way. Whether we are excited about it or we are resistant about it, depends a lot on whether we wanted that change or we were forced to accept it.

However, there is another important factor which we must not ignore. How well we are, how much time we are spending on relishing our achievements, have we given the required attention to the failures and the setbacks in our lives? There will always be a moment when we are flying high with our successes and there would be moments when we fail followed by another fail and then another one. We need to find our space and time for both.

If we are not taking care of the above mentioned, we may find change fatigue taking over all our excitements. How about taking a vacation to before taking our new position in the office. How about taking a break for a travel year or to pursue our interests and then looking for our desired roles in the Corporate? Can we work for our own venture?

Today, we have millions of opportunities and ways to achieve successes but there would be equal or more number of failures. The good thing is that we tried and then failed. We can choose to do anything which is close to our heart. The important thing here is to know when and how to relish our successes and relax when we fail.

Be open minded to change and do not let change fatigue take over the excitements!