Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

I gave a workshop to the Buffalo Niagara Partnership BN360 group on Creating change in a leadership role. From finding areas of cooperation to involving others in the conversations, leaders can develop various steps to succeed. If you are interested in a similar workshop for your organization, community group, or team, contact me.

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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 27, 2010

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Mike Cardus

JANUARY 24, 2021

cooperating and resisting cannot be perceived at the same time. What does cooperating look like? How will we recognize cooperating? When meeting and working, what will cooperating look like? What process will we use to develop unique or innovative change? When we feel resisting, what can we do instead?

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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 24, 2013

It is helpful to listen, agree and cooperate. Talk to discover slightly different viewpoints for cooperation. Use how each person and the team responds as a chance to make the learning even easier. Instead of viewing the resistance as an issue it gave me a chance to see how each person and the team as a whole cooperates.

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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 21, 2013

It was day 1 of an 8 month Exponent Leadership-Development program with 12 people from different areas of the company. The same group of managers who were enthusiastic about management development and applied leadership to the organization, turned from cooperators to resistors in 3 days! Photo Credit. Until the following week.

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Mike Cardus

AUGUST 28, 2013

These fictions can be seen either as cooperation or resistance ; they are one or the other. As you and your team create these stories of how challenging it is to work with the “other”, the words, actions and views that exist about them develop into deep patterns of resistance. Pattern of Cooperation. –Barnlund 1981.

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Cooper Resistance Team Building Micromanagement 148

Skip Prichard

APRIL 12, 2021

Leadership is shifting as we grapple with technology changes, shifting market realities, new business models, and unpredictable outside forces. Tom has over three decades of experience as a leadership and organizational culture consultant. What’s the Goodell definition of leadership? . Thrive in a Hyper-Connected World.

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Self-aware Leadership Team Open-book 134

Mike Cardus

MAY 3, 2013

Plus it helps, for you the facilitator, to be on the look out for cooperation. How could you try this with your team? Reference: the observation question comes from Steve de Shazer ‘Keys to Solutions in Brief Therapy’ … I adjusted the wording for more team building and organization development focus. What do you think?

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Team Company Team Building Executive Coaching 141

Mike Cardus

AUGUST 9, 2013

Resistance to change is an opportunity to find cooperation and ways to leverage the group to find what works and do more of it. What do you think? How does the need to belong to a group affect change in your company? What have you found that works? michael cardus is create-learning.

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Mike Cardus

JUNE 20, 2022

Below are some ideas on different approaches or efforts that will reduce the resistance to trying to fix someone’s psyche and increase the cooperation from trying to interact with someone to cooperate towards a shared solution. And it does not help set conditions for change and the emergence of novel and innovative ideas.

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Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 15, 2010

This applies to groups of all sizes including classrooms and schools, families, business and government organizations, hospitals, sports teams and the social sector. why is everyone smiling? why is everyone smiling? why is everyone smiling?

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Michael Lee Stallard

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

How we feel about people has a impact on trust and cooperation. Michael is president of E Pluribus Partners , a leadership training firm. He writes about leadership and employee engagement at his award-winning blog. Jason is president of Life Spring Network , a Christian discipleship and leadership training ministry.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Here’s the thing - leadership and conflict go hand-in-hand. Leadership is a full-contact sport, and if you cannot address conflict in a healthy, productive fashion then you should not be in a leadership role. If so, you likely have issues with conflict.

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Blog Fashion Brand Self-aware 417

Michael Lee Stallard

DECEMBER 15, 2010

And because they are more engaged, Pixar employees put more effort in their work, are more trusting and more cooperative, all factors that affect productivity, quality and innovation. So long as Pixar’s leadership preserves its environment, I would expect it to continue leaving the rest of Hollywood in its wake.

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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Continually I see a ideas hap-hazardly put into organizational practice and managerial-leadership ONLY to make matters worse. Leading to Executives, Human Resources and team leaders grasping at the ‘Next Thing’ in order to cut the down on the felt mounting bureaucracy and dis-trust within the organization and team.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 5, 2010

They reward members who cooperate and help their colleagues and the overall organization. They promote a feeling of partnership so that everyone feels like part of the team and that they can make a difference. Does your organization act like one body? They find ways to make members feel proud of the overall organization.

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Competitive Advantage McCarthy Godin Definition 186

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

In fact, in most cases I actually prefer to have my thinking challenged – this doesn’t threaten me as a leader, it improves my leadership ability. Anyone who has ever been in a leadership position has had to deal with the inevitable tough relationship that causes more than its fair share of brain damage.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JANUARY 19, 2011

In other words, when the members of a group feel positive emotions related to being understood, respected, appreciated, and included by their group’s leaders and fellow members, it forms a bond that strengthens cooperation and commitment among group members. Emotions are important to organizational effectiveness.

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Mike Cardus

AUGUST 14, 2012

BTW – I am teaching a Professional Development class for University at Buffalo School of Social Work in Solution-Focused Leadership. The class is full, but don’t worry, if you are interested contact me and let’s talk about brining the content and lessons to your organization, team and people. Barnlund 1981. Steve de Shazer 1988.

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Michael Lee Stallard

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

One morning I attended a session that Ted holds each week with his leadership team and a select number of potential leaders. During the time the group discussed one chapter in a leadership book they were reading together. There were about 30 people in attendance. Ted stood upfront where he spoke and facilitated the session.

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Michael Lee Stallard

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

When relationships fail among colleagues, communication breaks down and rivalries develop that reduce cooperation and team spirit. – Michael Lee Stallard helps leaders at organizations such as General Electric, Google, Johnson & Johnson, NASA and Yale-New Haven Hospital boost productivity, innovation and overall performance.

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Customer Loyalty McCarthy Godin Self-aware 239

Mike Cardus

APRIL 28, 2011

Extant (presently existing) structures and processes that reinforce our deeper-lying impulses of love, trust, kinship and friendship, and release affection, creative co-operation and innovation. Could your team benefit from Trust, Creative Cooperation and Innovation? Contact Mike … to make your team better.

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Eric Jacobson

JUNE 15, 2016

"Connection is what transforms a dog-eat-dog environment into a sled-dog team that pulls together," says Michael Lee Stallard , author of the book, Connection Culture. Connection builds an emotional bond that promotes trust, cooperation, and esprit de corps among people in the workplace." Actively contribution to innovation.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 5, 2010

The character values, or blocks of the pyramid, were: industriousness, enthusiasm, friendship, loyalty, cooperation, self-control, alertness, initiative, intentness, condition, skill, and team spirit. why is everyone smiling? why is everyone smiling? why is everyone smiling?

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Follow-up Open-book Learning-by-Doing Hotels 360

Eric Jacobson

JUNE 16, 2013

"With that awareness, the team can plan a strategy for taking home their trophy." Build a gung-ho culture of learning and innovation. Team Building Leadership Into The Storm Eric Jacobson on Leadership and Management General Management Skills Teamwork' Strategy #4: Reinforce relentless learning.

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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 3, 2011

If are a Project Sponsor / Champion, Team Leader, Team member of a Quality Team and want to enhance your skill sets in Team Development, Facilitative Leadership, Project Management and people skills then this is where you should be. Facilitative leadership of teams. Team Leader. Jaques 1998).

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Quality Tools Team Development 124

Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 19, 2013

"With that awareness, the team can plan a strategy for taking home their trophy." Build a gung-ho culture of learning and innovation. Strategy #4: Reinforce relentless learning. Winning tactic : Think gung-ho -- a phrase rooted in teamwork.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

The benefit of this kind of team activity, is the opening of one’s mind, and shared creative stimulus, which fosters innovation. Show and tell: one morning a week, have team members or co-workers bring in an example of counter-culture that they have unearthed. Cooperation – willingness to collaborate.

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Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Entrepreneurs and innovators are supposed to be happily self-directed. Speaking out primes the market, builds anticipation, helps a radical idea sound familiar, and for those whose name becomes associated with the idea, thought leadership offers entree to circles of potential future backers and supporters.

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The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Organizational culture is also a key factor in levels of employee engagement, extra effort, innovation, morale, and teamwork. What do they say about meeting leadership and culture? One of the Zenger Folkman leadership competencies that correlates to greater effectiveness is Learning Agility. Who attends them? ” Yikes!

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Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Manager: a person who is held accountable for the outputs of others, for sustaining a team capable of producing those outputs, and for giving effective leadership to that team. In management roles, people are employed and held accountable in two ways: Their own effectiveness in completing work; The outputs of those they manager.

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Cooper Teamwork Learning-by-Doing Report 148

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2017

As a facilitator, I’ve found that photos can create connections between people faster—and more profoundly—than any other icebreaker or team-building activity I’ve ever used. To Foster Innovation, Connect Coworkers Who Share Aspirations. Upbeat Music Can Make Employees More Cooperative. Amy Jen Su.

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