Exercise: Immunity to Change Worksheet

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The Immunity to Change worksheet helps you identify hidden beliefs and competing commitments that are holding you back from achieving your goals.
It provides instructions to state your commitment, identify conflicting actions, explore underlying fears, and develop strategies to address these fears.
The worksheet includes reflection prompts to help you understand what hidden fears resonate with you and how they are preventing you from taking action towards your goals.
The worksheet has a table for you to fill out including: Commitment, What Am I Doing Instead, Hidden Competing Commitments, What are the Assumptions Driving My Competing Commitments, and Lean Experiments.
The purpose of the worksheet is to discover your hidden beliefs and assumptions through lean experiments.

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1. EXERCISE Immunity to Change Exercise from: Immunity to Change: How to Overcome It and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your Organization by Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey Purpose: Identify hidden beliefs and competing commitments holding you back Instructions: 1. State your commitment or goal 2. Write down what you are currently doing or not doing that conflicts with achieving this goal 3. Explore potential fears or hidden commitments that might be driving these behaviors 4. Reflect on how these fears are impacting your progress and develop strategies to address them Reflection Prompts: ● What hidden fears or competing commitments resonate most with you? ● How are these fears holding you back from achieving your goals? ● What small steps can you take to start addressing these barriers?

2. Immunity to Change Worksheet Commitment (pilot goals) What am I doing or not doing instead to prevent me from achieving the goal? Hidden competing commitments: How are those commitments preventing me from taking action? What are the assumptions driving my competing commitments? Lean experiments: How can I test assumptions in small chunks?