What is Immunity to Change?
In their book: "Immunity to Change. How To Overcome It and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your Organization", Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey address the question: "Why is personal change so difficult?"
This book and the tools and techniques outlined within it tackle what is often referred to as the "knowing doing gap", or as Kegan puts it: "...how to close the gap between our intentions, things we actually want to carry out, and what we are actually able to do".
How does the immunity to change process work?
The process is very simple and is based around a four-column exercise:
Creating an Immunity to Change Map is a simple way to bring to light the personal barriers to change. It starts by outlining the client’s commitment to an improvement goal. Then it highlights the things that he or she is either doing or not doing that prevent progress towards the achievement of the goal. The Map then identifies competing commitments, as well as the big underlying assumptions behind those competing commitments. The objective is to pinpoint and address whatever beliefs and assumptions are blocking you from the changes that you want to make.
The Value of Immunity to Change
It can be applied to a variety of personal change goals, such as:
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