N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2021

To better understand the challenges of changing the mindset of employees at an organization, we should identify the factors causing this resistance to change. Other situational factors applied include high information ambiguity, communication breakdowns, executive-level silence, lack of team support, and poor organizational culture.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

This is the definition of presence, and it is only when we operate in the present that real creativity, growth and innovation occur. Operating in excess of that threshold will cause increased stress, lack of attention to detail and errant decisioning. Is your rubber-band stretched so tight that it’s about to snap?

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 27, 2023

Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS) implementation can be a transformative journey for organizations, enabling them to achieve operational excellence and drive sustainable growth. Strategy 3: Foster Strong Leadership and Change Management Leadership plays a critical role in the success of EOS implementation.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 23, 2017

My negative emotions drove me to try controlling everyone, and I saw insubordination in anyone who resisted. American business puts a lot of pressure on managers to deliver results, but to influence others and get positive results, they need leadership training. It’s not so unusual.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2019

Below I have outlined seven key traits, behaviors and ideas which, if correctly fused, will aide in better and balanced leadership. Fact, you cannot operate a successful business alone. To judge talent is to inform them what should be kept in them and what should be let go. So, how can we remain balanced as leaders?

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Mike Cardus

AUGUST 9, 2013

Resistance to Change and Learning Anxiety. Informal training of teams and groups. The district managers operated under a control and command system and asking them to switch to coaching & feedback was met with great resistance. Photo Credit. 3 Ideas for working with team change. Involve the team. What do you think?

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Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

Whether you are new to studying leadership or have practiced and studied it for many years, I am sure you will benefit and enjoy the leadership lessons today’s post provides. One of your first leadership lessons is “A subordinate’s trust in their leader is the most important factor in the success of any organization.”

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 11, 2017

Real problem solving comes when we allow the experience of others room to inform our thinking. Resisting multi-tasking is an everyday challenge. He has a diverse background covering sales, operations, marketing, and product management. Much of the time we should spend listening is spent preparing a response instead.

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The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

.” The last few years, there’s been a broader movement to applying agile principles to leadership and organization development. ’ You might say that business agility is a recognition that in order for people in an organization to operate with an Agile mindset, the entire organization needs to support that mindset.”

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2017

But what do you do in a context that resists change? Ask questions like, “How would our top competitors attack us if they had inside information?” Your innovation team need not operate with the same degree of secrecy as Skunk Works but should be given the autonomy to explore and develop new and innovative projects.

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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Clichés such as ‘We’ve always done it this way’ stem from a historical resistance to change. Quick, Impactful Actions against Stagnation In environments resistant to change, swift, targeted actions can create ripples that lead to significant transformation. Gather Intelligence to Understand and Overcome Barriers Information is power.

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Through observation, we can develop a sense of mindfulness that can help to inform and shape our understanding about a particular situation or process. In the face of prevailing uncertainty, it might sound odd to encourage that we build or nurture ‘sloppiness’ into how we operate.

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Tanveer Naseer

JUNE 27, 2017

Has resistance been dealt with openly? Is the leadership spine aligned and strong? So this step ensures that the business operating team is ready to take ownership of the change and continue implementing the plan. You may get a good liftoff, but then unexpected resistance drags you down. Are leaders modeling the change?

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2019

Below I have outlined seven key traits, behaviours and ideas which, if correctly fused, will be an aide towards better and balanced leadership. This is a life lesson as much as a leadership lesson, furthermore, we see it in leaders who take control of situations, who own what they do and inspire others around them to take responsibility.

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Nathan Magnuson

OCTOBER 3, 2016

The “curse of knowledge” is recognized as a “cognitive bias” that essentially means it is difficult or impossible to unremember or disregard information you possess. Once we gain a degree of knowledge in a certain area, it’s difficult to resist making assumptions that we now know best what to do.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

By turning to a skillful executive coaching company that knows exactly how to deliver results when it comes to leadership coaching and helping leaders do what they do best: optimize their performance, imagine further, and lead well. Still, it has taken many different forms, and today, not all executive or leadership coaching is created equal.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

FACT : Leaders who lack emotional control won’t remain in a position of leadership for long. FACT : Leaders who lack emotional control won’t remain in a position of leadership for long. There has been no shortage of information published on the topic of Emotional IQ or what’s referred to as EQ in recent years.

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QAspire

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Our corporate conditioning as well as constant onslaught of information disables us in this regard. Beating distractions and resistance by engaging in activities that are immersive for me and add value – to the self as well as the outer world.

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Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

Studying people who demonstrate incredible resilience under pressure always teaches me ways I can improve my stamina and my leadership. That’s why I was immediately drawn in when a copy of Shannon Huffman Polson’s The Grit Factor: Courage, Resilience, and Leadership in the Most Male-Dominated Organization in the World crossed my desk.

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QAspire

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Our corporate conditioning as well as constant onslaught of information disables us in this regard. And once I acknowledge how I feel (or want to feel), I act on that feeling to create the desired outcomes for myself and people I work with.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Make a list of each employee’s top skills and use this information when assigning work, so that most of the time, employees are operating from their strengths. Ask themselves, “What am I weak at, and who among my employees can best cover for my weaknesses?”. Help employees feel appreciated for everything they are good at.

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HR Digest

MAY 15, 2024

This involves aligning the TNA with the company’s strategic priorities, such as improving financial performance, enhancing operational efficiency, or expanding into new markets. This information can be used to design targeted training programs that address the identified areas of improvement.

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Experience to Lead

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Finally, we look at how to grow your personal leadership competencies with learning and development. Leading change management is about promoting growth and creating a space for transitioning to new approaches through your leadership style. Those in leadership roles must show others they are also doing the work.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 21, 2016

Though Newton's third law of physics may dictate that every action has an equal and opposite reaction, when it comes to the alteration of employee behaviors in the workplace, the reactions and resistance can often be disproportionately negative. Having studied that topic, we use that term of "simple sabotage behaviors" advisedly here.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Leadership is Command Presence. Bender was describing a vital feature of leadership—command presence. Leadership is Being Spirit-Full. Leadership is the act of influencing another to achieve important goals. Ask any parent frustrated by a resistant child; authority is the last resort of the inept.

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QAspire

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Big companies have all the required resources, but also a lot of red-tape and resistance to change. Innovation can take many forms from operational innovation to business models and creating platforms. Dr. Deming on Joy of Work, Innovation and Leadership. Also, innovation doesn’t always mean a flashy new idea.

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Skip Prichard

APRIL 15, 2020

Can you make sense of this: Organizations worldwide spend $356 billion a year on leadership development efforts , yet 75% of organizations rate their leadership programs as being not very effective? Some startling leadership statistics: 75% of employees report their boss is the worst and most stressful part of their job.

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 9, 2012

A leader’s ability to create a collaborative environment through open communication and mutual understanding is undoubtedly becoming a critical leadership skill in today’s faster-paced, increasingly interconnected world. But how do you establish and maintain team harmony if those team dynamics are in constant flux?

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2022

As it turns out, what passes for strategy in many businesses, government agencies, and military operations is ultimately just a mix of wishful thinking and a jumble of incoherent policies. For more information, see The Crux: How Leaders Become Strategists. In The Crux: How Leaders Become Strategists , UCLA professor emeritus Richard P.

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Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Fifteen minutes before I saw this banner the operations & human resources managers were telling me about their individual incentive program to increase output. 4 Steps to Gathering Information for Manager Effectiveness. Make Failure and Learning an Objective :: Resistance to Change. Managers Can Change That.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 30, 2015

1 This feeling of incongruity can be deeply unsettling, for example, when men set off explosives at a marathon race or open fire in a movie theater; that is not how our world is supposed to operate. We seek to make sense of the situation and reconfirm meaning elsewhere in our lives when such tragedies occur.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

The culture required to drive a strategy of innovation is different from the culture required to develop efficiency or operational excellence. Corporate leaders that operate with an ivory tower mentality are likely to find their tower tumbling down. It’s a byproduct of leadership that should cascade down throughout the organization. #2.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

When it finally came to my attention, I realized right away that large-scale, controlled experimentation would revolutionize the way all companies operate their businesses and how managers make decisions. Why do many business leaders resist it? I had no idea how their use would fuel the rise of today’s online businesses.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 30, 2020

I’ve written a few times about the virtues of offering staff flexible working options, and it’s interesting that it’s largely taken a pandemic to force the hand of managers who have so often resisted such approaches out of hand. Research suggests that virtual workers operate best when working in bursts.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Meaning that any part of your business or product that can be replaced by pure digital information almost certainly will be. But, Tereck strongly suggests that we all resist the impulse to pretend that vaporization isn’t happening. Who is in charge of reinventing your company’s business model and operations? It will continue.

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HR Digest

APRIL 11, 2019

It’s very important for every organization involving more than two people to develop ways of operation, systems, and policies that would dictate its culture. Lastly, in the area of communication, employees are at their best if properly informed about a project. Your next “don’t” is the resistance.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

sales, leadership, marcom, coaching). They encourage resistance, partial/missed answers, and lies. These questions restrict possibility, cause resistance, create distrust, and encourage lying. Or therapists or managers or leaders say “They’re resisting”. Don’t you think it might be time to get a haircut?

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