10 REASONS YOUR EDUCATORS (OR EMPLOYEES) ARE RESISTING YOUR CHANGE INITIATIVE
Here’s a little something for you to think about over the weekend. Those resisters and naysayers in your school organization (or corporation or nonprofit or …)? You know, the ones that are pushing back against your change initiative? The ones that you like to complain about because ‘the train is moving’ and they’re not ‘getting on board?’ What if they’re right?
10 Reasons Your Educators Are Resisting Your Change Initiative
- Surprise, Surprise! Decisions or requests that are sprung on administrators and teachers without notice.
- Excess Uncertainty. Not knowing enough about the change will result in the "walking off a cliff blindfolded" syndrome.
- Loss of Control. Feeling that changes are being done to, rather than done by, those affected.
- Loss of Routine. Concerns that change will require administrators and teachers to question familiar (and comfortable) routines and habits.
- We've Seen This Before. Expectation that the initiative is temporary and it will stay