This week on the podcast, I welcome back Deborah Helsing to discuss Immunity to Change: what it is, why it matters for leaders and organizations, and how to overcome it.
Deb teaches at Harvard and heads up Coach Learning Programs for Minds at Work, the company created by Bob Kegan and Lisa Lahey, who coauthored Immunity to Change.
Deb and I previously spoke about deliberately developmental organizations.
This time, we met at her office in Cambridge, to explore why every time we try to change, we look down and discover our foot is on the brakes. Yikes! And, more importantly, how to use our understanding of this messy situation to our advantage!
Highlights
- 12:00 Seeing the brilliant way your psychological immune system operates
- 18:00 Hidden or competing commitments, the brakes on change
- 22:30 Feeling the pit of your stomach is a very good sign
- 35:00 Some people felt tricked by flipping complaints into commitments
- 40:00 Designing safe experiments to test your untested assumption
- 46:30 Which developmental stages benefit from this approach?
- 49:30 How Immunity to Change approach nurtures developmental change
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Explore Additional Resources
- Minds at Work, which offers workshops about Immunity to Change
- Immunity to Change: How To Overcome It And Unlock The Potential In Yourself And Your Organization by Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey
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