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When teams resist the change they say they want

Our team hired someone specifically to bring more diversity to our leadership and now they're pushing back on processes that the rest of us are comfortable with and some people are getting defensive instead of listening. I can see we hired them to change things but we're not actually ready for the change.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The disconnect between stated intentions for change and emotional readiness to be changed creates an impossible position for everyone involved.

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