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Featured Instigator: Ann Van Eron

Lead Change Blog

This month we are featuring Instigator Ann Van Eron , founder and principal of Potentials , a global executive coaching and organization development consulting firm. ” The best moments in her career have occurred due to the leadership program she developed based on the OASIS process for open-minded conversations.

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Checklist for Influencers: questions for sellers, coaches, leaders, change agents

Strategy Driven

Most of you are really good at what you do: as influencers, sellers, coaches, change agents, or leaders, your intuition, excellent skills, and history of success guide your ability to facilitate change for your clients. Do your current methods of avoiding resistance work? Not to mention lost sales and difficult implementations.).

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Book Notes – Originals by Adam Grant

RapidStart Leadership

That’s the question that author Adam Grant poses in his 2016 book Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World. In a more recent and modern application, consider how the company Upworthy develops titles for videos it wants to go viral. One of the reasons is the influence that others have on our thinking.

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Overcoming the Barriers to Corporate Entrepreneurship

Strategy Driven

In this article I explore three barriers to entrepreneurial action: resistance from within the firm, resistance from within the supply chain, and resistance from the customer. Resistance from Within. The most significant hurdle by far is resistance to change from within. Resistance from the Supplier.

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The Problem With Information

Strategy Driven

Information, when used to influence or sell, advise or share, has cost us untold loss in business and relationships. It actually causes resistance. Information Causes Resistance. We’re actually creating resistance, losing business, destroying relationships, and impeding change. But is this true? And we’re wrong.

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Questioning Questions

Strategy Driven

They encourage resistance, partial/missed answers, and lies. These questions restrict possibility, cause resistance, create distrust, and encourage lying. These narrow the range of possible responses, often creating some form of resistance or defensive lies; they certainly cause defensiveness and distrust.

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Buying Decisions, Buying Decision Path, Buy Cycles, and Pre-Sales

Strategy Driven

When I started up a tech company in London in 1983 and became a ‘buyer’ I realized the problem and developed a new skill set to migrate it. I couldn’t understand why prospects who ‘should have’ bought didn’t buy. Here’s how I figured it out. HOW SALES IGNORES BEHIND-THE-SCENES BUYER’S REAL ISSUES.