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Featured Instigator: Ann Van Eron

Lead Change Blog

Ann tells us, “I have worked all over the world with a wide range of organizations offering leadership and team coaching, organization development and leadership development. ” 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. One of the reasons is the influence that others have on our thinking. As Grant concludes, “merely knowing that you are not the only resister makes it substantially easier to reject the crowd.”.

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Overcoming the Barriers to Corporate Entrepreneurship

Strategy Driven

How do organizations achieve longevity, the kind of longevity that survives long past the founder or any particular leader or leadership team? 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.

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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

sales, leadership, marcom, coaching). They encourage resistance, partial/missed answers, and lies. These questions restrict possibility, cause resistance, create distrust, and encourage lying. Or therapists or managers or leaders say “They’re resisting”. Don’t you think it might be time to get a haircut?

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Younger and Older Executives Need Different Things from Coaching

Harvard Business Review

These ranged from commanding greater influence to building a strategic vision, aligning their team, and refining their interpersonal and communication skills. Our study was published in Consulting Psychology Journal in December 2016. The gender breakdown was 54% male and 46% female.