You Have to Make Change, to Make Change

Anytime you are seeking to influence others to change you must make sure that you have earned relational 'change' with them first. As John Maxwell says, "you have to seek their heart before you seek their hand." Change is usually tough on folks, so it will often cost you emotional and relational change that you have or have not accumulated in order to have it to spend on the request for change. So how are you doing?  Are you asking folks to make a change in the organization when you have not accumulated sufficient relational change yet to ask?  Folks will obey if they have to, but they only follow when they really want to! It isn't the big thing that folks give up on you for, it is simply the last thing you didn't have enough relationship to cover.