Who is Aleš?

Mag. Aleš Vičič is a psychologist with a Master of Science degree and a cognitive-behavioural therapist who was one of Slovenia's leading sports psychologists for more than 20 years. He has counsulted more than 400 athletes and coaches on their path to top performance, including 150 elite athletes and 60 Olympians, across more than 40 sports. He has since brought his extensive experience and broad psychological expertise to the field of business psychology, where he is now doing consulting services for leaders in companies on how to better lead themselves, their people, teams, and processes. In just over seven years, he has worked with more than 200 leaders from over 50 companies. More at: poslovni-psiholog.si and sportni-psiholog.si. He is also the founder of the Strokovni psihološki center Sprememba (Professional Psychological Centre), which currently brings together 30 psychologists and cognitive-behavioural therapists and offers counselling to a full range of clients: sprememba.com.

Interactive Session: Psychology of not-changing

Agility means that we, as people, adapt to change and thereby achieve our goals (more easily). That is why company leaders introduce a variety of methods to help employees adapt more easily, quickly, and effectively. Yet despite these good methods, every leader knows how difficult it is to bring real change in employees. Research on change management points to the same conclusion: the vast majority of change initiatives in companies fail!

Therefore, the key question is, why don't we change how we act, even when we know it would be good, beneficial, and effective? Even when we are motivated to change, or genuinely want to.

In this workshop, participants will learn about some fundamental psychological mechanisms that in all of us "work" against changing our existing patterns, actions, and ways of operating. To help participants gain a good understanding of these mechanisms, we will work on their own examples: situations where they wanted to change, were motivated, and were aware of the need, yet still did not change their ways.