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How Energy Increases, Strength Grows, and the Seduction of Doing Easy Things is Resisted

Leadership Freak

Expand potential by doing things that require energy and strength. You don’t find strength while snoozing in a hammock or snacking at the movies. Strength rises when you do hard things. No challenge… Continue reading →

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Leadership and Resistance

Lead Change Blog

Using resistance to lead effectively. If you truly understand resistance, you seldom need to deal with it: You manage its cause before it even manifests itself! Understanding resistance. The leader understands the source of resistance and deals with it adequately. There is a tendency in all nature to resist change.

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12 Ways to Reduce Resistance to Change – Part 1

Lead Change Blog

No matter how brilliantly researched, planned, and executed, you will meet resistance to change. It might seem somewhat off-putting, that around 75% of your workforce might resist change in some shape or form. Your communication, energy, and enthusiasm will build trust in your ideas or the common ideas negotiated with your staff.

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Seeing resistance? Look inside yourself

Persuasive Powerhouse

You might notice a little or a lot of it every day; resistance is all around you, and most prevalent when your organization is in some kind of transition (almost all the time). Observe, and you’ll see that resistance manifests itself in group conversations and in one-on-ones, zapping energy and preventing progress.

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Dare Yourself to Face Tough Situations

Lead Change Blog

In any case, the time spent circling the worry drain is energy expended … energy wasted. What if, instead, you spent that energy envisioning how brilliant it could be on the other side? Here’s something it took me some time to learn: facing hard choices always takes less energy than avoiding, hiding from, or delaying them.

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Energy and Leadership with Rick Maurer

Kevin Eikenberry

Leading during a time of change often comes with much resistance, which brings many challenges to move forward. The post Energy and Leadership with Rick Maurer appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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6 Forces Resisting Change

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development Self Leadership I recently wrote a post titled 5 Ideas To Direct Your Best Energy Toward Your Greatest Purpose. We need to mobilize leaders. Personally, I want to hate my laziness, television, surfing, and anything keeping me from impact.