Resistance to change
Resistance to change is opposition or reluctance to adopt or participate in a change to established practices, processes, structures, or ways of working.
Collaborative Software Design: How to facilitate domain modeling decisions
Resistance is a reluctance or opposition to change, participation, or confronting a problem within a group.
- How it is used
- Surfaces hidden obstacles to participation and shared modeling decisions during collaborative facilitation.
- How deep it goes
- Defines resistance, catalogs observable patterns, and gives observation and decision-framing practices without claiming motives from isolated behavior.
- Examples
- Uses withdrawal, sarcasm, excuses, interruptions, remote camera-off behavior, gossip, and a design-discussion withdrawal scenario.
- What you can do after
- Diagnose/debug with it by recognizing repeated observable patterns and clarifying buy-in before resistance obstructs participation.
Interview Speak
Opposition or reluctance among people toward accepting an idea, proposal, or change to established behavior, processes, or practices.
- How it is used
- Prepares you to answer interview questions about persuading people to accept beneficial changes.
- How deep it goes
- Provides a step-by-step answer structure from identifying resistance through implementation and results.
- Examples
- Uses a sales-strategy proposal and an internal customer-prioritization process change as interview scenarios.
- What you can do after
- Practice/perform an interview response that shows how you gained acceptance for a change.
Related concepts
- facilitationaddressed by · Facilitation is the practice of supporting communication, participation, or collaboration to help people or groups make progress toward shared goals.
- poor communication/breakdownincludes · Poor communication or breakdown is a resistance behavior involving the stopping or limiting of communication because a person feels unheard.
- conflictkind of · Conflict is a state of disagreement, opposition, or incompatibility among people, positions, interests, actions, or information.
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