From the course: Best Practices for New People Leaders
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Overcoming fear of change
From the course: Best Practices for New People Leaders
Overcoming fear of change
- I once gave a keynote to over 700 hospital leaders. At the beginning of it, I asked, how many of you are open to change? Almost everyone raised their hands. I said, how many of you are really open to change? Same number of hands went up. I then started organizing them into groups, asking them to get up and go stand with others to discuss some of the day's topics. After each group, I would nail down a learning point. But by the third time I asked them to move, even though I said it would be the last time, I heard a number of sighs in the room. I stopped and said, wait, I thought this group was open to change? Everyone laughed, but they got the point. Just because we say we're open to change doesn't mean we really are when the rubber meets the road. There are a lot of reasons why you may avoid change. But today, I want to help you identify when you put a stop to change specifically because of your fear. Fear is the number one reason we're reluctant to change our ways. Fear sounds so…
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