Creating the Onion Model
The Onion Model of Resistance is a model I developed initially to describe resistance to change. I subsequently generalised it to cover handling: resistance to ideas in a presentation sales objections resistance in a learning environment resistance to engagement Full details are in the Handling Resistance Pocketbook. I recently had a couple of articles published by Training Journal, which I have put onto my Handling Resistance blog: Creating the Onion Model Resistance to Engagement I hope you will enjoy them.
Read MoreCreating the Onion Model Part 2
Yesterday, I posted the first part of an article published in the September 2011 issue of Training Journal. I describe how I developed the Onion Model that is at the centre of The Handling Resistance Pocketbook. Here is Part 2 of that article. From one Model to many… It was around 2004 when a client asked me to extend a presentation skills programme to offer advanced workshops and coaching to small groups. Among their particular challenges, one came up again...
Read MoreCreating the Onion Model
In the September 2011 issue of Training Journal, I describe how I developed the Onion Model that is at the centre of The Handling Resistance Pocketbook. Here is that article. Models are the way that human beings understand our world, and everything we experience. We are constantly building models to explain what we observe, or to predict what we will observe next. Every rule, law, theory, hypothesis, generalisation or process that we make or follow is a model. Model making...
Read MoreResistance to Engagement Part 2
In yesterday’s post, Part 1, we started looking at resistance to engagement, by looking at the basics of the onion model and then peeling the first layer: “I don’t understand why you want me to engage with you.” In this second part, we complete our analysis. “I don’t understand how to engage with you” The first component of this really means “I don’t understand what engagement means”. The word “engagement” is totally abstract. Whilst the training, development and HR community...
Read MoreResistance to Engagement Part 1
People want to be engaged. They want to be treated fairly, to be consulted about what is happening, and to feel valued and supported. Yet employee engagement initiatives often meet with scepticism, resistance and even hostility. Why is this? Can we understand the source of the resistance and build on this understanding to create positive ways to handle it? First, let’s look at what employee engagement is all about. Figure 1 illustrates the overlap between what engaged employees can give...
Read MoreHandling Resistance to Engagement
This month’s edition of Training Journal is focused on the topic of “engagement”, seven feature articles dedicated to the topic. I was honoured to be asked by the editor, Elizabeth Eyre, to contribute. My article “Resistance to Engagement” builds on the onion model to discuss why people sometimes resist such an obviously “good thing”. Training Journal Training Journal is a subscription only magazine, and access to the full article archive on their website also requires a subscription. It is an excellent...
Read MoreWhere did the onion come from?
The core of The Handling Resistance Pocketbook is “The Onion Model”. Indeed, one of the drivers for writing it was to put my “onion model of resistance” into the wider world. I originally developed this in the context of resistance to change and used it in training and facilitation sessions for the last eight years. Six years ago, a client I was working with on advanced presentation skills asked me for tips on dealing with disagreement and resistance from the...
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