Why People Resist Change

The idea looks marvellous, and your expectations are high concerning its implementation and acceptance by your team. You introduce it to them with great excitement, but the looks on their faces says it all, ‘what is she saying’ ‘how can it work?’ No matter how well designed and planned your change program is, not everyone will be singing its praises. People resist change for many reasons, from a straightforward intellectual disagreement over facts, to deep-seated psychological prejudices.

Some of these reasons may include:

• belief that the change initiative is temporary
• belief that fellow employees or managers are incompetent
• loss of authority or control
• loss of status or social standing
• lack of faith in their ability to learn new skills
• feeling of change overload (too much too soon)
• lack of trust in or dislike of managers
• loss of job security
• loss of family or personal time
• feeling that the organization is not entitled to the extra effort
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Have you ever wondered why more problems are brought to your desk than solutions? As an entrepreneur, you need to teach your staff to come up with the solutions to the problems they have even before they bring it up. They must be thoughtful and innovative; they must understand what it means to bring solutions to issues in a company without your intervention. Not every problem must be solved by you as the employer. There are loads of things that are bagged out on your agenda and you don’t want your staff to bore you with silly problems that could be easily resolved.

We know though, that employees are the first to find faults and problems within the organization. They do not feel they have any stake in the business, so why should they think up solutions? They forget that they are a part of the company and the smallest decisions affect them too. By the time you put your staff through the exercise of finding the solution before the problem, you would indeed discover those that have the intelligence or kind of thought process you require. You would be able to separate the chaff from the wheat. Who needs a dullard these days!

Except he knows he’s job depends on proffering solutions to his own problems, he wouldn’t take it just as serious as he should.

Gone are the days when employees are been spoon-fed with training and workshops, as much as that is required by organizations, many have budget cuts that it is now left to the employee to keep himself on top of his team at all times.

It is important for every individual to sharpen his/her thinking, and intelligence.

Lastly, a non-innovative and non-productive staff is a total loss to a company; and also the major cause of snail-growth or no growth within an enterprise.

It takes a lot of patience to build a dedicated team of innovative minds; the pain, and time is worth it.

There are a few things that can be done in times of grave emergencies. Your mobile phone can actually be a life saver or an emergency tool for survival. Check out the things that you can do with it:

FIRST: Emergency

The Emergency Number worldwide for Mobile is 112. If you find yourself out of the coverage area of your mobile network and there is an emergency, dial 112 and the mobile will search any existing network to establish the emergency number for you, and interestingly this number 112 can be dialed even if the keypad is locked. Try it out.

SECOND: Have you locked your keys in the car?

Does your car have remote keyless entry? This may come in handy someday. Good reason to own a cell phone: If you lock your keys in the car and the spare keys are at home, call someone at home on their mobile phone from your cell phone. Hold your cell phone about a foot from your car door and have the person at your home press the unlock button, holding it near the mobile phone on their end. Your car will unlock. This saves someone from having to drive your keys to you. Distance is no object. You could be hundreds of miles away, if you can reach someone who has the other 'remote' for your car, you can unlock the doors (or the trunk).

When you talk about swimming pools, outdoor pools readily come to the mind of the average Nigerian. In the world at large, architecture is being taken to wild heights. Building and design codes and regulations are coming in the ‘obscene creative splendor'. Building department of great cities are having to expand their ‘coast' and 'think outside the box' to accommodate and approve new age architecture. Nigeria should not be left out. Indoor pools are a new wave therapeutic relaxation, all year round recreation, exercise, and mere fun. Swimming is widely regarded as the best overall exercise, it uses more muscles than any exercise. Floating in water simply reduces stress and calms the mind.