How to Keep an Idea from Breaking During the Resistance Phase \ team alignment and thinking types

elenaburan
May 15
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A Practical Guide to Team Alignment and Thinking Types

💥 When an Idea Fails Not Because It’s Bad — But Because It’s Misunderstood

You bring a new idea to the team — inspired, alive. But instead of support, you meet:

Skepticism
Silence
Pushback
Fatigue
Distraction

📌 This isn’t sabotage. It’s the natural resistance phase — caused by the diversity of thinking types within your team.

If you don’t understand how the IPER typology of intelligence works, you might kill a good idea simply because it wasn’t accepted immediately.

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Resistance Is a Test — Not a Sentence

Each IPER intelligence type reacts to new ideas differently:

Type	How They React to a New Idea
Intuitivus	Feels inspired — but struggles to explain it clearly
Rationalis	Questions the logic: “Where’s the structure?”
Ethicus	Worries: “Could this harm people?”
Practicus	Goes quiet: “What exactly should I do?”

📌 If you don’t understand this — you’ll push.

📌 If you do understand — you’ll align.

🧭 What to Do When You Encounter Resistance

1. Don’t take it personally

They’re not rejecting you — they simply don’t yet see the whole picture.

2. Support each person’s thinking logic

🧠 Rationalis — Give a clear plan and solid arguments
❤️ Ethicus — Show how it helps people
🛠 Practicus — Tell them what specific task they’ll own
🌌 Intuitivus — Let them expand the vision and feel involved

3. Don’t rush the launch

The stronger the idea, the more time it needs to be integrated into every mind.

🧩 IPER Alignment: Step by Step

Step	For Whom	What to Do
1	Intuitivus	Share the vision, insight, or metaphor
2	Rationalis	Clarify details, structure the logic
3	Ethicus	Test it for values and human meaning
4	Practicus	Deliver concrete tasks and start doing

📌 Until you complete all four steps — your idea isn’t truly aligned.

📌 If you skip one — they’ll “push back” with disengagement or passive resistance.

🔧 What Does a Fully Aligned Idea Look Like?

It’s understood intuitively
It’s structured logically
It’s accepted with feeling
It’s embodied in action

📍 Only this kind of idea fully activates the team.

⚠ What Breaks an Idea?

Forcing: “Just go with it — no questions.”
Dismissing types: “He always complains.”
Fear of losing momentum: “We have to act now.”
Avoiding dialogue: “I know best.”

📌 Don’t rush. Better one day later — with everyone on board — than fast and alone.

💬 Real-World Example \ team alignment and thinking types

You suggest launching an educational project.

Intuitivus says: “Yes! This feels important.”
Rationalis: “What are the sources? What format?”
Ethicus: “Won’t this overwhelm people?”
Practicus: “What exactly do you need from me?”

If you reply, “Enough questions, let’s just do it,” — you’ll lose three out of four. Even if the idea is brilliant.

But if you say, “I hear each of you. Let’s build the whole from these pieces,” —you’ll turn an idea into a project, and a group into a team.

✨ Conclusion

An idea is like fire. To make it burn — you need to light it and let everyone warm up and add their own log.

📌 Resistance isn’t a threat — it’s a tuning moment.

📌 If you learn to hear each type — you’re not just building a project, you’re creating a living ecosystem of meaning, logic, feeling, and action.

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