Leading Blog

JANUARY 26, 2015

The most common problem that modern professionals face is a lack of risk tolerance and a resistance to change. If you are not on track, rethink the solution, rethink the audience, or rethink the way you’ve positioned yourself and your brand. But underlying it all is how we deal with fear. Assess : Study the responses you get.

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Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 30, 2012

By offering such programs, employees are given the opportunity to not only refine and develop their skills in order to be more effective in their roles, but it also encourages them to take the time to evaluate their career goals and come up with ideas of how their organization can help them to achieve them.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 10, 2019

Of late, there has been an increase in the use of various social media platforms for business purposes and building careers. Within a short time, your audience will grow, and you won’t have to boost posts regularly to reach many people. This could be a freebie like an eBook in your niche that solves some problems your audience faces.

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Talent Anarchy 1

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

We must assume a protective stance for all within our network and resist the temptation to gossip, defame, or throw people under the bus. I have never, in my 23-year career, heard of a team who has “too much” communication, or from a team who believed the communication was “too good.” Communication. Communication.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

And so, I have tried to take this journey with my readers, clients, and audiences—we truly are on this beautiful journey together! So the first lesson is to resist the urge to label something “unmeasurable” just because measuring it is hard. One excellent resource to make this easier is Wayne Cascio’s Investing in People.

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Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

For myself, this September also marks a special milestone in my writing career – specifically, it marks the one-year anniversary of the launch of my first leadership book, “ Leadership Vertigo ”. And yet, less than 30% of bosses are actually having these conversations.

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Experience to Lead

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Whether it’s your social life, family or career, one thing you can count on is the consistency of change. Your approach to creating a leadership development strategy must consider your audience and how they will best respond to your leadership style. Resistance to change There’s no doubt about it: change can be overwhelming at times.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 21, 2012

The more transparent the envi­ronment the more willing leaders will be to share resources in support of the shared goals of the entire business, and the harder it will be for resisters to hoard them. Ultimately, it's as much a mindset as it is a process.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

As Timeline rolls out on individual profiles, anyone who has both a professional career and a Facebook account will have to rethink the relationship between them. Just as it's hard to resist mugging for a camera, it may be hard to resist Facebooking just to make your Timeline look prettier, more interesting, or simply less food-centric.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

This is an important audience whom I care about deeply and wanted to help. But as I went to craft the talk, I found myself just staring at my computer, hopping on twitter, and finally finding time to take that run… as Steven Pressfield would say, I was deep into the resistance phase of the creativity process. goals are vital.

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Joseph Lalonde

JANUARY 9, 2015

From his roles in Zulu, Deathrap, and Harry Brown, Caine has had a career of over five decades as an actor. The biggest one takeaway is that we have to push through even when we feel resistance. Most often that resistance is trying to hold you back rather than protect you. It’s not about selling, it’s about helping.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2018

And many have gone on to have successful careers. Your audience will forget most of your talk soon after you give it (whether it is good or bad). Comedians will come up with something and practice it, and then try it in front of an audience. Watch the audience closely. Resist the temptation to add more content.

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Roundtable Talk

MARCH 4, 2010

Don’t look for or expect 100% support for your ideas… recognize that many people will be comfortable with the status quo and will resist change. " 12 hours ago #adweekcdn #genesimmons lesson in what can go wrong with interactive audience participation. Don’t waste your energies trying to win everyone over.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

Every storytelling exercise should begin by asking: Who is my audience and what is the message I want to share with them? Think of a moment in which your own failures led to success in your career, or a lesson that a parent or mentor imparted,” says Sachs. A change-resistant industry that needs to be transformed?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2016

But instead of running or fighting, which just creates more resistance and angst, simply observe those instincts and get comfortable with the idea that discomfort is part of the game. Therefore, it’s best to embrace nervousness rather than resist it or push it away.” For example: In a speaking situation, poll the audience.

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Roundtable Talk

JULY 7, 2010

But it’s hard to resist when you’re passionate about your product! " 12 hours ago #adweekcdn #genesimmons lesson in what can go wrong with interactive audience participation. As leaders, we need to be cautious about throwing around criticism before getting a good look under the covers.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

.” Complete with a “Wheel of Songs” that audience members could spin to select the next song, a live DJ, opera-themed drinks, and costumes for attendees to try on, it was designed to remove the intimidation often felt by those new to opera and introduce a younger, hipper audience to operatic music.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2015

Another strategy to gain more influence for your ideas is finding commonality with your audience , a technique that makes them far more receptive to hearing from you. With these strategies, you can begin to overcome others’ resistance and make sure your voice is heard. ” You and Your Team. Persuasion.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2018

Using these publications as the main “currency” for career advancement has produced four unintended consequences. Scholars who have benefited from the way scholarly impact is traditionally assessed (by counting only or primarily “A” journal publications) may resist seeing scholarship assessed more pluralistically.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Professor Chris Argyris demonstrated that many “stars” who effortlessly ascend the career ladder are shockingly unable to handle negative news. Resist the urge to prophesy. To help someone with a problem that hasn’t derailed an otherwise productive career, ask them how they believe they can best cope with it.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

But as your career advances, at some point you will be promoted into a job which includes responsibility for areas outside your specialty. Welcome to reality: You are now the leader without expertise—and this is where you, possibly for the first time in your career, find yourself failing.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

In many ways, she seems like the ideal employee, someone with excellent potential for a career in management. Gemma’s high EQ may help her empathize and deliver a message that feels right to the audience — this is often a good thing. Who wouldn’t want to hire Gemma? A well-developed ability to manipulate others.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Lately, whenever I give a talk about social collaboration, the first question I hear from the audience goes something like this: Are you craaazzeeee ? Many people have built their careers and their identities on being experts, and for them this can be terrifying. You might know all of that, but are you fully embracing it?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Weintraub suggests you also make sure the skill is relevant to your career, your organization, or both. You may be jazzed up about learning how to speak in front of large audiences, but does your manager value that? This helped her audience understand where they could make changes and how exactly she could help.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

When they had finished, the great man himself, who had been sitting at a table in the audience eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, walked to the front of the room. It started off conventionally enough: the host and four prominent speakers recounted the deeds and impact of the honoree, at some length. It’s about mutual fund fees.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2014

Executives no longer sit behind closed doors,” one consultant said; instead they must be “team-oriented, capable of multitasking continuously, leading without rank, resisting stress, ensuring that subordinates do not suffer burnout—and do all of this with a big smile in an open-plan office.” Career planning Managing yourself'

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2016

We know having a sponsor who supports your career can help level the playing field for women. More specifically, we found that some of the key behavioral themes associated with gender inclusive leadership that support women’s career advancement are: using their authority to push workplace culture toward gender equality.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

The ability to get new initiatives off the ground is also critical to your career. Shape your story for the audience. “Think about the language you’ll use for each of your audiences,” says Ashford. Your aim is to “reduce resistance, bring people on board, and band allies and resources together.”

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

In the era of multimedia politics, leadership is commonly downgraded to just another form of entertainment and charisma is indispensable for keeping the audience engaged. In fact, there are big reasons for resisting charisma: 1. However, the short-term benefits of charisma are often neutralized by its long-term consequences.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

These leaders are sure to engage and maintain audience attention in high-stakes meetings and discussions, and they do not avoid conflicts and differences of opinion. Look for an opportunity to share your feelings and opinions with clarity and conviction, despite any resistance you may experience.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

” He would later call this the most important insight of his career. No matter how I framed it, no matter how senior the managers in the audience, the debate would eventually come to Stayer’s motives for changing a solid business on a whim. Learning, striving people are happy people and good workers. Why was he doing it?

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