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My Way to Deal with Resistance to Change
Richard2212
I am a head teacher in a large secondary school in Scotland. Here the trade unions are very powerful and automatically resist any proposed improvement in learning and teaching practices on the basis that it will involve increased workload. As with all other unions, their priority is of course the well-being of the staff and not the wellbeing of the pupils. Over the years I have evolved the following 5 steps with regard to managing change:
1. Come up with a good idea for improving teaching - either your own good idea or someone else's good idea.
2. Give credit to the school trade union representative for coming up with the good idea, pointing to the trade union's publicly declared commitment to pupil well-being in all things
3. Oppose the idea vehemently - no way is the trade union going to dictate what happens in your school, over your dead body etc.
4. Grudgingly give in to the idea, acknowledgeing that the trade union has you over a barrel
5 implement the idea with no further difficulty!
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Resistance to Change
Anthony Belon, Entrepreneur, Malaysia, Member The reason for Change Management is because of resistance to change, call it by any other name.
Ref. Point 2 as expressed by Richard of UK, the ...  |
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The Way to Deal with Resistance to Change
Wes Haydock Is Head Teacher Richard serious? Most people would see through this as a simplistic manipulative approach. Teachers are fed up with the ever- increasi... |
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Change Management
Sushil Relan What Richard says is correct. But in the long run it would be appropriate to bring the teaching staff into the mainstream by involving them. My sugges... |
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Change Ways to Implement Change Management
Jagdish B Acharya, Consultant, India, Premium Member What Richard says works every time when opposition to change is from a group that always opposes for the sake of opposing. Such people do not see reas... |
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@Richard 2212
Rebecca Roe, United States, Member You've given up--terrible strategy to me, I don't know how you rest with your conscience. I understand survival, but the art of negotiation is getting... |
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