Is My Team Resistant to Change?

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In this essay I am going to show my understanding of the team's resistance to change and how the change could be managed. I will illustrate how I believe that successful adaptation to the changing circumstances depends upon various factors. Some of those factors are: unconscious and conscious group dynamics, anxieties and collective defences, leadership and the way the individual is handling the change in himself. I am going to present some of my early experience of working within the nursery team, which had showed me how hard it may be to accept that the change is needed and that often fulfilling the primary task depends upon that change.

Nursery

The setting ran sessional care for children under up to five years old in the leisure centre. There are few centres within the town with another nursery in the other centre. In our nursery manager never organised the staff meetings and the lack of it took away the opportunity of discussing the setting's routines and other issues among staff. Some of us felt that there were changes needed like implementing creative activities for the children or varying the look of the inside room regularly. Not having opportunity for group discussion we all chatted between each others about how unhappy we felt and general feeling of frustration could be sensed. Some minor changes were happening which were to do with with updating policies or procedures. We normally just got informed about it by the manager while we worked, with the children present. The key worker system was in place, although there were no opportunity to discuss individual children and plan for their needs. Also the manager, who attached individual children to practitioners, did not discuss if any of us had created a bond with s...

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Conclusion

Surely there is many unconscious staff dynamics which can either stand in the way of change or contribute to it's positive implementation.. As I have illustrated good leader who could contain staff's anxieties would be the key for the change to happen. Unfortunately I have not experienced working under good leadership.

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