Change - Resolving resistance and utilizing potential
Understanding emotional dynamics and using them constructively in changes
Contents
Introduction to the topic of resistance patterns
- Change curve: The emotional dynamics of those involved in change processes.
- Acceptance matrix: Basic forms of emotional reactions in the change process.
- The typology and psychology of attitude, impact and behavioral patterns in change processes.
Successful individual work with resistance
- Analysis of resistance (organizational).
- How resistance patterns work.
- Recognizing and overcoming resistance and blockages.
- Initiate and implement measures for successful change.
Identifying individual resistance patterns
- Recognizing and analyzing behavioral patterns in the change process.
- Which attitudes, patterns and reactions can I deal with well or less well?
- What are the possible solutions and courses of action?
Reflect on and optimize your own behavior in change processes
- Experience and critical reflection on the dynamics of one's own behavioral patterns in blocked situations.
- Scenic and psychological work and analysis of resistance patterns.
- How to support employees in change processes in their self-motivation.
Reflection on attitude, impact, and behavior
- Presentation and reflection of situations from professional practice.
- Scenic improvisation on behavior and communication in change processes.
- Get to know and apply new aspects of positive psychology.
- Motivational psychology; individual attention instead of equal treatment.
- Get to know, apply and control solution-oriented aspects in the course of a conversation.
Learning environment
In your online learning environment, you will find useful information, downloads and extra services for this training course once you have registered.
Your benefit
- This training provides you with the necessary know-how to successfully analyze, implement and actively support change processes by comprehensively identifying potential resistance and dealing with it constructively.
- You will learn about and experience the typical patterns of psychologically-driven resistance in change processes.
- You bring practical cases to the training: you reflect on and practise typical situations. This will teach you how to deal with resistance in a confident, respectful and flexible manner.
Methods
Input, group and small group work, practical examples, feedback and discussion. Typical critical situations are presented and reflected upon in scenic exercises, and finally further behavioral alternatives are practiced and anchored.
Recommended for
change managers, project and process managers specialists, as well as executives and employees who deal with resistance in change processes, restructuring, transformations, and projects of all kinds.
Further recommendations for "Change - Resolving resistance and utilizing potential"
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Start dates and details
Monday, 23.03.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Tuesday, 24.03.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Wednesday, 06.05.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Thursday, 07.05.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Monday, 06.07.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Tuesday, 07.07.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Monday, 15.02.2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Tuesday, 16.02.2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
You will gain practical know-how on analyzing, implementing, and actively supporting change processes, and learn to recognize, analyze, and constructively deal with typical patterns of resistance. This will give you confidence in dealing with emotional reactions and blockages in teams or organizations.
Using your own practical examples, you will practice how to respond to resistance in a confident, appreciative, and flexible manner. You will also learn methods and tools to better support people in situations of change and successfully drive change processes forward.
This training course is aimed at change managers, project and process managers executives and employees who regularly encounter resistance to restructuring, transformation, or projects within their organizations.
You will strengthen your professional attitude, reflect on your own behavior in dynamic situations, and learn to remain capable of acting and solution-oriented in complex change processes, which will increase your change competence in the long term.
You will learn about tools such as acceptance matrices, psychological typologies, and analysis tools that you can use immediately to assess and manage change dynamics in your projects.
