The Recovering Engineer

JULY 27, 2012

The group problem solver has to build consensus, encourage and inspire others, and create buy-in for a proposed solution. This consensus/inspiration/buy-in piece is often where leaders go wrong as group problem solvers. Set aside your desire to leap to action in the interest of building consensus.

Consensus 191

Consensus Proposal Definition Tools 191

Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 9, 2014

Don’t try to resist technology in the workplace. They allow you to cast a worldwide net to gather ideas, connect to sources of knowledge and experience, and build consensus throughout your organization, no matter how large it is. In Downton Abbey, resistance to change nearly cost the Grantham family their estate.

Competitive Advantage 267

Competitive Advantage Resistance Business Model Consensus 267

Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Resist the temptation to overuse consensus. Am I relying too much on consensus? Have you ever experienced a project manager, manager who was overly reliant on consensus? Select and apply the most time-efficient decision-making approach that will also meet the needs for quality and acceptance. What do you think?

Positioning 129

Positioning Consensus Team Team Building 129

Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The ones who resist making those decisions – who won’t cannibalize their own hero product or won’t terminate the toxic star employee – tend to be insecure and driven by ego or other impure motives. And time spent prematurely cultivating buy-in and fostering consensus just amounts to energy leakage.

How To 84

How To Commitment Hedge Resistance 84

QAspire

APRIL 14, 2016

Any change in a positive direction means channeling collective energy of people, overcoming resistance, building consensus and involving others – none of which is possible without some leadership. Without any leadership, things still change but often, in a southwards direction.

Consensus 70

Consensus Leadership Resistance Energy 70

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Without: * real collaboration * gathering data from the best set of sources * consensus and buy-in procedures in place * understanding the full impact from a proposed decision * front-loading for change management (to avoid failed implementations). What sort of success is possible when one source is driving change and.

Succession 50

Succession Consensus Resistance Proposal 50

Skip Prichard

APRIL 19, 2021

We have to remember that we live in a world now where consensus increasingly has become very important for everyone to secure. The biggest problem is that vision cannot be created through consensus. Consensus comes into play when a leader has no idea where to go and seeks instead to please everyone.

Consensus 125

Consensus Learning-by-Doing Long-term Banking 125

Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 14, 2014

Implementing change today relies on building consensus rather than top down executive fiat. Finally, if you are in a business culture that is resistant to change, instead of wasting energy on frustration try this formula. Create consensus by presenting your plan to colleagues and stakeholders. ” are gone.

Contingency Plans 268

Contingency Plans Consensus Discount Planning 268

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 9, 2020

Urban-rural differences in partisan political loyalty is as familiar in the United States as they are in other countries,” the researchers say. “The general consensus has been that the origins of this divide lie within the personal characteristics of the people who live in rural or urban communities.

Politics 92

Politics Long-term Consensus Education 92

Change Starts Here

MARCH 29, 2012

Decisions by Consensus. You can work to change it, removing the organizational resistance caused by culture. When people value their own priorities most and act to preserve them, it can be difficult to foster the collaboration and possible self-sacrifice necessary for change. The opposite may also be true.

Consensus 118

Consensus Resistance Learning-by-Doing Environment 118

Ron Edmondson

MARCH 2, 2021

Has change usually been accepted or resisted? A consensus of the largest percentage of people? So, this is valuable information for any leader. The natural reaction to change. Is the “way it’s always been done” changeable? Who has to initiate change? What is the anticipated speed of change? Who needs to know about it?

Edmondson 52

Edmondson Consensus Long-term Resistance 52

Nathan Magnuson

JANUARY 4, 2016

“Think Grey” Steven Sample shared this concept in his landmark book The Contrarian’s Guide to Leadership as an encouragement to resist making a critical thinking judgment sooner than necessary. I participated in a talent review once where the consensus on one leader was that he had an entitlement complex.

Leadership 120

Leadership Consensus eBook Sample 120

leaderCommunicator

JUNE 3, 2014

Flip charts and sticky notes flow, ideas get jotted down, and ultimately you arrive at a consensus -- the path forward. While I’m not in the product promotion business, I was so impressed by a new crowd-sourcing technology I recently encountered that I can’t resist sharing my experience.

Brainstorming 126

Brainstorming Conference Consensus Participative 126

Ron Edmondson

JULY 29, 2020

Trying to build consensus or form team spirit becomes more difficult. 8 ways people don’t fit well on a team: Resistant to every change – Whenever a new idea is presented, these team members are always the first to say it won’t work. If unaddressed it can be dangerous for organizational health.

Team 48

Team Consensus Cooper Edmondson 48

Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

This approach typically results in a much longer discussion, since it is much harder to get a fast consensus on what is best, versus what is worst. I think it is human nature to want to do the easier things first, but good leaders need to resist that temptation and have the courage to take on the big and hairy stuff.

Leadership 339

Leadership Consensus Follow-up Resistance 339

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2015

What if the leader’s goal overrides the mental models, beliefs or historic experiences of the followers, or the change is pushed against the follower’s values, and resistance ensues? It will more than meet the vision of the leaders (although it might look different), and the followers will own it with no resistance.

Charisma 50

Charisma Leadership Resistance Welch 50

Lead Change Blog

JULY 21, 2015

Consider the baseline of what needs to be accomplished and come to consensus on assignment details, team classifications, and the roles each team member will play. It’s possible that people who are forced to work together will build a rapport and completely change the team dynamics so future projects don’t go through the same resistance.

Banking 150

Banking Project Covey Objective 150

Mike Cardus

MAY 3, 2013

It is tough to have them choose just 1 … and if we can get agreement through consensus the team is doing really great. If a team seems un-movable, don’t just push harder and scream about how obstinate they are being… resistance is futile. Trying hard to place some QQT/R metrics on that goal. Team Observation Task.

Team 141

Team Company Team Building Executive Coaching 141

leaderCommunicator

OCTOBER 15, 2013

The best way to receive employee resistance is to present something as the end-all-be-all way of doing things. As your trial period nears a close, have a group discussion to gauge the consensus, collect comments and tend to final concerns. Test The Waters.

Policies 124

Policies Consensus Follow-up Brainstorming 124

Strategy Driven

JULY 22, 2015

We offered a cover page and a couple of pages of Facilitative Questions [a new type of question I developed that enables Responders to assemble/recognize unconscious, systemic criteria - in this case, regarding implementation, buy-in/consensus, resistance issues that would be a natural fall-out from a project of this size].

Consensus 50

Consensus Proposal Committee Project 50

Skip Prichard

JANUARY 22, 2023

That sort of makes sense because somewhere, in the background, the rule of law or an agreed consensus is floating about. It had no alliances built on anything more than temporary shared convenience, and its wild furies produced intense resentment – as in the intense partisan and resistance movements all across Europe.

How To 108

How To Open-book Wilde Constraint 108

Strategy Driven

JUNE 10, 2015

What if the leader's goal overrides the mental models, beliefs or historic experiences of the followers, or the change is pushed against the follower's values, and resistance ensues? It will more than meet the vision of the leaders (although it might look different), and the followers will own it with no resistance.

Charisma 50

Charisma Leadership Resistance Follow-up 50

Strategy Driven

MAY 5, 2016

How do you manage your CP’s biases, triggers, filters, and assumptions to expand choice and possibility, and avoid unconscious resistance, fallout, and restricted results? Do your current methods of avoiding resistance work? No more delayed sales cycles or lost prospects; no more failed implementations; no more resistance to change.

Influence 50

Influence Resistance Consensus Learning-by-Doing 50

Strategy Driven

MARCH 5, 2014

What issues would need to be agreed upon for a solution to get group consensus and buy-in? And you end up with resistance, delayed sales cycles, implementations studded with costly errors and insufficient data, regardless of the efficacy of your solution. What does the housing market look like for the sale of your house?

Creativity 89

Creativity Resistance Consensus Case Study 89

Strategy Driven

APRIL 14, 2016

Cognitive Dissonance: When the content we share – words, questions, information, education, advice, written material – goes against someone’s (conscious or unconscious) personal beliefs and system of Self, we cause Cognitive Dissonance and resistance regardless of the efficacy of the information. often fall on deaf ears.

Skills 50

Skills Resistance Self-aware System 50

Strategy Driven

JULY 8, 2015

When outcomes aren't being met effectively it's a people- and management problem including: fall-out, sabotage, and resistance; long execution times; exclusion of peripheral people; restricted creativity and communication; exacerbated power and status issues. Here are some problem areas and solutions: People. No hidden agendas! Discussion.

Resistance 50

Resistance Consensus Creativity Download 50

Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

I resisted the urge to throw a fit. I resisted the urge to say anything, and stayed quiet. Do not force the team to come to consensus; that results in whitewashing differences and dissenting votes. I glanced at Commodore Kenny, who was standing to the side of the control room. I waited for several seconds.

Power 100

Power Download Resistance Bottom-up 100

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 31, 2015

These terms define a specific set of sequenced actions buyers take to enable internal consensus and change – change management issues, if you will – rather than define steps that address needs or vendor/solution choice which come later and are the focus of sales. Long meeting to get consensus. Tech guy resistant.

CFO 50

CFO Consensus Budgeting Brand 50

Ron Edmondson

DECEMBER 6, 2017

And, with much of this platform I encourage people to build by consensus and include others in decision-making, but there will be times you’ll have to stand for the right thing. In my opinion it would be difficult to l as at the senior level if you were one who resists change and thinking outside the box.

Micromanagement 39

Micromanagement Consensus Long-term Delegation 39

Strategy Driven

JULY 29, 2015

Anyone who will touch the final solution must be present to move forward or there will be fallout, sabotage, and resistance: there is no way to compensate (as per creativity or consensus) once a meeting is held with folks missing. No restrictions. Collaborators must enter with no assumptions.

Resistance 50

Resistance Download Open-book Consensus 50

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Here’s a bit of flawed thinking that exacerbates the problems: Sellers believe prospects are folks who SHOULD buy (those with a ‘need’) rather than those who WILL buy (those who achieve consensus and set up a way to manage any change a purchase involves, and are ready and able to buy regardless of urgency of need).

Content 51

Content Marketing Consensus Servant Leader 51

Strategy Driven

MAY 28, 2014

let’s begin listening for, and designing, tools to facilitate the movement along the decision path that change decisions goes through; let’s ensure the right people are all involved (some not so obvious) and address consensus-building. It will be an addition, and the results will stronger relationships and more conversions.

Marketing 81

Marketing Consensus Content Follow-up 81

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

It’s possible that by pushing our own agendas and not focusing on what might be common values and consensus, we are perpetuating harm and causing others to defend their beliefs. Change needs consensus: win-win is key (we know there is no such thing as win/lose). Avoiding Resistance. Hearing Agreement.

Consensus 50

Consensus Active Listening Learning-by-Doing Discount 50

Ron Edmondson

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

Has change usually been accepted or resisted? A consensus of the largest percentage of people? Many times this has been formed over the years, sometimes even before a leader has been in the position, but it is valuable information for any leader. The reaction to change Is the “way it’s always been done” changeable?

Examples 57

Examples Organization Consensus Long-term 57

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. These are the types of questions to which everyone must know the answers.

Incentives 258

Incentives Agility Resources Follow-up 258

Strategy Driven

APRIL 7, 2016

ensures all sales models, including Challenger, create resistance, potentially turn off real buyers who need your solution (80% of prospects buy a similar product within 2 years of your interaction), and ignore the ability to influence 70% of the Buying Decision Path. Buying Decisions/Process. Buying Decision Path.

Definition 50

Definition Consensus Influence Resistance 50

Ron Edmondson

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Has change usually been accepted or resisted? A consensus of the largest percentage of people? Many times this has been formed over the years, sometimes even before a leader has been in the position, but it is valuable information for any leader. The reaction to change. Is the “way it’s always been done” changeable?

Organization 30

Organization Consensus Edmondson Long-term 30