Resisting Change
Yesterday at the AMT National Meeting, Jim Hernandez, MD, MS, assistant professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, College of Medicine; medical director of Laboratories and Chair of Clinical Pathology, Mayo Clinic-Arizona, spoke to attendees on "Adjusting Your Sails: Motivational Skills for Allied Health Professionals."
Dr. Hernandez focused his lecture mostly on change--how some people like the challenge, and others shy away from it. He gave reasons why people typically resist change:
--Do not know
- Lack of communication
- Lack of shared vision
--Are not able
- Have not been trained
- Conflicting goals in the organization
- Have not been given the tools
--Are not willing
- Informal customs/inertia
- Lack of trust
- Have a general fear of change
For more on Dr. Hernandez's lecture, check out the AMT conference story on our Web site on July 14.