The first port of call for any change journey is your immediate team. If your colleagues don’t commit to change, it’s unlikely that even in a conducive organisational culture, a shift will happen.

As an evangelist, coach, consultant and change maker, anticipating push back from your team will help you deal with it as well. So in this article, I’d like to share with you some blockers you’re likely to encounter from your colleagues and towards the end of this piece, we’ll consider some high-level approaches to address these blockers.

Introducing change in large organisations is tough. Synchronous work has a 250 year old legacy and organisations are used to it for a number of reasons. As an advocate of asynchronous work, you need to be aware of the potential challenges you’ll face when you try to introduce a new way of working in any organisation.

This article outlines some of the obstacles you should expect.