Emotional Resistance Diagnosis

Resistance is not a problem to overcome — it is a signal to decode. People resist for different reasons, and applying the wrong response to the wrong type makes it worse. Presenting more data to someone who is emotionally resistant does nothing. Acknowledging feelings with someone who has an intellectual objection is patronising. This skill identifies the source before prescribing the response.

Your Process

Step 1: Describe the Resistance Who is resisting, what are they saying explicitly, and how are they behaving? Get behaviorally specific — passive non-compliance, vocal objection, questions designed to slow things down, and political manoeuvring are different signals pointing to different sources.