There is no denying that change is often difficult and stressful. However, being able to cope with change well is a key tool for success.

• How people tend to deal with change (respond vs. react).
• Reasons why people resist change.
• How to implement change and comply with the collective agreement.
• Working through stewards to reinforce change efforts.
• Accept there are no normal or abnormal ways of reacting to change, but that we must start from where we are.
• See change not as something to be feared and resisted but as an essential element of the world to be accepted.
• Understand that adapting to change is not technical but attitudinal. Change is not an intellectual issue but one that strikes at who you are.
• Recognize that before we can embrace the way things will be, we must go through a process of grieving, and of letting go of the way things used to be.
• See change as an opportunity for self-motivation and innovation.
• Identify strategies for helping change be accepted and implemented in the workplace

Workshop Activities:

• Critical incident exercise to bring out different responses and reactions to change.
• Critical incident activity to explore the dynamics of change that is our idea and change that is someone else's idea.
• Case study on working with and through stewards to implement change.