Change tends to meet with resistance. Planning, creating strategies to involve individuals and groups in the change, and using management techniques designed specifically for transition can make the process of change less problematic. The following seven exercises are designed to help people who desire to initiate change. These exercises examine some essential elements of change and help to organize ideas for projects into action plans. Exercises six and seven develop more advanced skills for understanding and analyzing the viewpoints, values, and patterns of communication and debate used in public forums.
The exercises on managing change are:
- Examining Assumptions
- Steering Around the Barriers
- Inventory of Support and Resistance
- Commitment Charting
- Creating an Action Plan
- Identifying Communication Strategies
- Recognizing Values in Action
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