Making change happen

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It is one thing to plan for change and it is another to make it happen on the ground when you are faced with open resistance, covert subterfuge and other problems.

• Change techniques: a host of methods for moving people.
• Lewin's freeze phases: Unfreeze, transition, refreeze.
  • Unfreezing techniques: Ways to get them going.
  • Transitioning techniques: Ways to keep them moving.
  • Refreezing techniques: Stabilizing them afterwards.
• The Kübler-Ross grief cycle: The emotional cycle on given bad news.
  • Shock stage: Initial paralysis at hearing the bad news.
  • Denial stage: Trying to avoid the inevitable.
  • Anger stage: Frustrated outpouring of bottled-up emotion.
  • Bargaining stage: Seeking in vain for a way out.
  • Depression stage: Final realization of the inevitable.
  • Testing stage: Seeking realistic solutions.
  • Acceptance stage: Finally finding the way forward.

See also

Resistance to change, Objection-handling, The psychology of change