Lead from Within

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

In the world of leadership and professional development, executive coaching has become an invaluable tool for achieving personal and organizational success. Resisting Feedback: Executive coaching often involves receiving constructive feedback. Resisting or dismissing feedback can impede your growth.

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Leadership Freak

AUGUST 24, 2022

Constructive feedback elevates resistance. Defensive employees feel threatened. Pressure increases suspicion. You cause pain when you challenge defensive employees. Move forward anyway. 7 dangers of defensiveness: Lack of ownership. Defensiveness refuses to be… Continue reading →

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

In the text that follows, I’ll provide you with 4 constructs to help you evolve your thinking around digital transformation. Focus Point #2: Redefine your future and get there first – resist the temptation to chase others in pursuit of their future as already defined by them.

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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

I gave a workshop to the Buffalo Niagara Partnership BN360 group on Creating change in a leadership role. While many models portray change as resistant, hard, and require leaders to be more directive than desired, this does not have to be the case. The post Creating change in a leadership role appeared first on mikecardus.com.

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CO2

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

What is Bad Leadership? Bad leadership encompasses a range of behaviors, qualities, and styles that negatively impact an organization , its employees, and its goals. Here are some key aspects that define bad leadership: Poor Communication : Bad leaders often fail to communicate effectively with their team.

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Great Results Team Building

MAY 1, 2024

Just like a key needs the right grooves to unlock a door, your leadership approach needs to adapt to different personalities to achieve truly productive communication. Their leadership skills inspire others to achieve goals. Their control-oriented nature may lead to micromanagement or a resistance to new ideas.

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Mike Cardus

JANUARY 24, 2021

” -Steve de Shazer ‘The Death of Resistance’ Change and the metaphors you use will impact how you see and navigate change. How will we listen to multiple voices to best understand and co-construct our future and change? cooperating and resisting cannot be perceived at the same time. How will others notice?

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Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Delivering feedback sandwiches that start with a lot of happy talk, sneak in a little bit of constructive criticism and then end with more happy talk doesn’t do anyone any good. Skip the preamble – When you start the conversation, resist the urge to start with a preamble about everything but the substance of the feedback.

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Leading with Trust

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The Leadership Development Carnival, sponsored by Weaving Influence and the Lead Change Group , is a monthly publication of thought leadership from some of the brightest minds in the field of leadership. Check out Top Gun Rules and follow Wally Bock of Three Star Leadership. Want a good training model? Team Building.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 24, 2024

“By focusing in specific ways on five key leadership elements— Purpose, Process, People, Presence, and Peace —you can increase your time, capacity, energy, and ultimately your leadership impact,” explains Amy Jen Su , author of the book, The Leader You Want To Be: Five Essential Principles for Bringing Out Your Best Self—Every Day.

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 14, 2021

Most people value strong leadership, but they resist control. Give feedback that’s constructive and do it kindly and privately. The Leadership Gap. Additional Reading you might enjoy: H ow Great Leadership is Generated in Significant Crisis. Stop trying to control everything. Stop taking people for granted.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 7, 2020

Many leadership books and coach training programs outline rules for asking good questions. Even just taking a coaching approach to your leadership conversation should be a process of inquiry, not a series of questions. Offering observations when clients deflect, hesitate, or show resistance. Avoid Why questions.

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CO2

OCTOBER 20, 2023

However, the spotlight should be on the giver, ensuring feedback is constructive, actionable, and delivered with empathy. However, there’s always that one employee who resists feedback, making collaboration a challenge. Consider this analogy: Asking a question to someone you distrust is fruitless.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Rather than deal with reality in a constructive way, we engage in drama. Handling defensiveness and/or resistance to feedback. Ego resists things like “Mental flexibility, self-reflection, taking full accountability, forgiveness, letting go and moving on.” Leadership is love.” T HE WORLD IS full of drama.

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Mike Cardus

JUNE 14, 2020

Many change models portray change as painful, loss, resistance, grief-laden, hard, and that leaders must manipulate people to make change happen. Cooperation and resistance cannot happen at the same time. Explore Mike’s Leadership Portfolio. Change does not happen like this! What makes this change process work?

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CO2

JUNE 18, 2014

by Gary Cohen 21 Obstacles to Leadership. Resisting collaboration with peers because of promotion interests/competition. Resisting delegation of responsibilities and decision making. These obstacles can undermine and derail great leadership. The post 21 Obstacles to Leadership appeared first on Elements of Leadership.

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 6, 2021

“By focusing in specific ways on five key leadership elements — Purpose, Process, People, Presence, and Peace —you can increase your time, capacity, energy, and ultimately your leadership impact,” explains Amy Jen Su , author of the book, The Leader You Want To Be: Five Essential Principles for Bringing Out Your Best Self—Every Day.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 27, 2018

Lifting your gaze outside yourself while looking inward to remove the roots of resistance is how you become more conscious.” Become more honest and intentional in leadership and life, overcoming the pitfalls of being too safe and cautious while embracing reality. Conscious is the new smart.

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CO2

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

In Energy Leadership: Transforming your Workplace and your Life from the Core , Bruce Schneider outlines two forms of energy that show up in our lives: anabolic and catabolic. Anabolic energy is constructive, expanding, fueling, healing, and growth-oriented; it releases endorphins. Energy Leadership. Anabolic Energy.

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Not only did 2014 mark five years that I’ve been writing online for this blog, but this was also the year I finally added “author” to my list of credentials with the release of my first leadership book, “Leadership Vertigo”. Read more on this leadership insight here: Are You Creating Value Through Your Leadership?

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 10, 2018

Lead by both/and : challenge the status quo through constructive dissent, respectful irreverence, and purposeful discomfort. ? To resist our tendencies to make right or true, that which is nearly familiar, and wrong or false, that which is only strange.”. ? Start with the carrot, not the stick. ?

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Leading Blog

MAY 15, 2019

Leadership takes courage because it requires making bold decisions that some people won’t agree with or support. The courage of try is associated with: “Stepping up to the plate,” such as volunteering for a leadership role. TRUST Courage involves resisting the temptation to control other people. TRUST Courage.

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Ron Edmondson

AUGUST 2, 2023

They almost always involve the ways people misuse or even abuse their leadership power. Listen to wisdom, even constructive criticism, but don’t fall victim to people who resist every change. This has always seemed like cowardly leadership to me. Plus, check out the other Lifeway Leadership Podcasts.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 22, 2017

Especially when it comes to giving and receiving constructive feedback? Teams and entire companies can become feedback-resistant, and will inevitably suffer. About Angela Sebaly: Angela Sebaly, author of The Courageous Leader (Wiley, spring 2017), is co-founder and CEO of the firm Personify Leadership, a training provider.

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Eric Jacobson

APRIL 22, 2024

In other words, these responses, whether they’re positive or negative, constructive, or destructive, worked to alleviate our stress. Getting unstuck from ingrained stress-response patterns is not a small task, and many of us will find ourselves resistant to change. Why did you decide to include that material in the book?

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 11, 2010

A CEO’s ability to perform effectively is so closely tied to their ability to form a clearly articulated vision, evangelize the vision and then to execute on their vision, that no real discussion on executive leadership should take place without an emphasis on vision.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 25, 2019

Psychological safety is not about taking all of the bumps and ruts out of the road (which sadly is becoming more and more prevalent in leadership thought today). People will learn where to draw the line with constructive feedback. Creating a psychologically safe workplace is an ongoing function of leadership. It is an enabler.

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Leading Blog

JULY 6, 2012

When you find yourself in a stressful situation and caught in a downward negative spiral, Hedges recommends that you: Stay vigilant and recognize when it’s purely pessimism and not constructive. Learn to challenge your thoughts before, during, and after a stressful situation.

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Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 29, 2020

When you describe what you are looking for, you can use the feelings and expressions of resistance and cooperation to highlight or spotlight progress steps to control and see patterns. Feelings are co-constructed, and feelings get re-created when you think about the past based on your current presence in context.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2015

Much of what is written about leadership falls into the category I call ‘trait-centered leadership’: someone deemed ‘at the top’ who uses his/her personality, influence, and charisma to inspire and give followers – possibly not ready for change – a convincing reason to follow an agenda set by the leader or the leader’s boss.

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Mike Cardus

AUGUST 28, 2013

These complaints often construct the reality of how the team operates and how the people within the team treat and act towards each other. Rather than focus on the problem, focus on the solution by developing a folkloric construct that is reinforced by the shared language , actions and stories of the team about the “others”.

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Leading Blog

JULY 19, 2021

They recognize that even the most reasonable comment or idea, presented in the most constructive way possible, may still fall flat or lead to trouble if delivered at the wrong time. Shaking while talking, going silent, or literally fleeing the situation because we’re scared at the first sign of resistance doesn’t help.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 10, 2015

Much of what is written about leadership falls into the category I call 'trait-centered leadership': someone deemed 'at the top' who uses his/her personality, influence, and charisma to inspire and give followers – possibly not ready for change - a convincing reason to follow an agenda set by the leader or the leader's boss.

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QAspire

JULY 1, 2012

Joining a team in leadership position is an opportunity to gain team’s respect and support. Yes, there are issues in this team, processes are not optimized and there is some resistance. Or, they ignore resistance. Resistance is negative energy, but energy nevertheless. Both will boost levels of resistance.

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CO2

JUNE 18, 2014

21 Obstacles to Leadership. Resisting collaboration with peers because of promotion interests/competition. Resisting delegation of responsibilities and decision making. These obstacles can undermine and derail great leadership. The post 21 Obstacles to Leadership appeared first on CO2 Partners.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 17, 2022

When team members are pigeonholed in narrow uninformed roles, they are often left with only one option, which is to resist change as a way of demanding respect.” It’s a hard truth, but if you want the power and benefits of distributed leadership then you have to root out toxic mindsets and behaviors at all levels.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Leadership traits likely also figure on the list as everyone wants to witness and learn from the skills of effective team leaders who know how to inspire the workforce. Attention to Detail Is an Important Leadership Trait Among the many leadership traits we hope to see from managers, attention to detail is also a necessary quality.

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