Harmony, consensus, and collaboration are often the buzz words in international development. Everyone agrees we need all stakeholders to work together better. And yet, in private moments, you’ll hear a different story:

• ”Collaboration is like herding cats.”

• “Everyone’s just paying lip service to the shared work!”

• “People say one thing and do another! That’s a competition disguised as a partnership!”

• “Please don’t make me participate in another coordination platform! I already have too many meetings...”

In this session, we’ll explore the ways people can resist efforts to change a system. Resistance comes in many forms: outright opposition, cynical denial (“been there, done that, it’ll never work”), avoidance, downplaying, stonewalling... How frustrating! To practice leadership, though, we need to look deeper to understand what’s beneath this resistance – and how to address it to keep making progress.

In this workshop, you will:

• Diagnose the losses that underpin resistance to change

• Identify different types of losses stakeholders in your context may be facing 

• Learn strategies for managing loss and overcoming resistance

• Meet like-minded professionals in international development space

This workshop is best suited for:

• Executives and managers who have been tasked with implementing programs that depend on political work to shift stakeholders’ perspectives or behaviors

• Development Agency and organizational leaders who sense that pathways to greater scale or deeper impact require engaging complex systems

• Donors who support organizations or initiatives working to achieve systemic change

This workshop is offered by Dalberg and KONU.

All workshop times are in Eastern Time.

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