If a supervisor is attempting to enact change and one of their employees is resisting, much of the supervisor’s energy can be drained trying to persuade the employee to buy in.
As the leader, your priority must be on clearing the path for the new way of doing things. Instead of trying to change the road the employee has been traveling, build a new road parallel to the current one.
You can invite the employee to buy in (like putting a paved crossover during construction), and later more firmly seek their engagement, but ultimately the old road ends and the employee comes to a fork where they must commit or leave.
Spend your time on the new road and help people see that it is better than the path they have been traveling.
