N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

They understand the unique pressures and demands of leadership positions and can provide tailored guidance to help executives develop the skills and competencies needed to succeed. Effective Strategies for Implementing Board Advisor Coaching Board advisor coaching is a critical component of the leadership development process in organizations.

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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

While working, you perceive change on a continuum from cooperation and learning — to resistance and a pain in the ass. . Change happens, and the cooperation/resistance is what you learn from and look for to co-construct what makes change work to improve the organization’s and your viability in the market. .

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 22, 2018

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. Try, wherever possible, to increase ownership of the change process, providing time and space for authentic engagement.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 22, 2018

No matter how brilliantly researched, planned, and executed, you will meet resistance to change. In May’s post , I set out the first six of my suggested twelve ways to reduce or reframe resistance to change. Throughout any change process, you must respect values—individual, team, and organisational.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Understanding the Role of Executive Coachee Programs in Enhancing Leadership Performance Executive coachee programs are crucial in enhancing leadership performance among top executives in today’s competitive corporate landscape. These programs offer numerous benefits that can significantly enhance leadership performance.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 19, 2014

.” Something inside you knows a process, product, or result can be improved. Author information Mike Henry Chief Instigator at Lead Change Group Mike is the Chief Instigator of the Lead Change Group and co-author with 20 other Lead Change Instigators, of The Character-Based Leader: Instigating a Leadership Revolution.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 24, 2018

Leaders need to redefine resistance. Suffice to say here, change leaders need to redefine resistance as necessary, often critical engagement. So, do not think you can prepare a checklist for your process, and then work your way through it. The post Understanding the Change Process appeared first on Lead Change.

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Change Starts Here

DECEMBER 10, 2020

I recently heard a story about a new process and system implementation. Then, there was a change in leadership, and everything started falling apart. By all measures, the implementation went well at first. It’s a common scenario, and the lesson is usually about gaining support from the new leader.

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Lead from Within

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Here are nine leadership challenges that most leaders will face and how to overcome them. As a leader, it’s important to anticipate resistance and have a plan to address it. Solution: Communicate the reasons for the change and its benefits clearly, involve employees in the change process, and provide support to help them adjust.

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Ron Edmondson

APRIL 14, 2021

After years of leading change, I’ve discovered every change will face resistance. And there is a primary reason people resist change. There is something in all of us, which initially resists change we didn’t initiate. If there is one primary reason people resist change, would it be helpful to know? All change.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

JULY 27, 2015

People don’t resist change. What people resist is having change imposed on them. Here are three guidelines that invite people to participate in the change process and minimize resistance to change. The best way to avoid resistance to change is to involve people in planning and implementing the change.

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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. It’s a tailored process that helps executives refine their skills, overcome challenges, and reach their full potential. Very few understand why or how to prevent it.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 26, 2021

The pole absorbs some of the car’s velocity, rather than resist it. The pole breaks cleanly and falls over rather than resisting the impact until it snaps and goes spinning off into traffic or someone’s living room. These are awesome culture-building leadership moments. Resist the urge. You’re a human being.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 22, 2024

Human-centric leadership involves building caring, trusting relationships, essential for long-term success. 14:50 – 18:59: Overcoming Internal Challenges for Personal Growth The biggest obstacle to personal growth is often internal, rooted in human nature’s resistance to change.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 1, 2020

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in April 2020. Entrepreneurial Leadership : The Art of Launching New Ventures, Inspiring Others, and Running Stuff by Joel Peterson. Rather, it's the apex of a certain thought process—a way to imagine the unimaginable and solve the unsolvable. But it's not.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 19, 2024

This force is called creative destruction, which is the process where innovation and technology advancements are reshaping industries and business models. These transformations typically involve a profound change in how a business operates, encompassing people, process, and technology.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 7, 2023

At the Center for Respectful Leadership , we believe that Coaching for Respect ™ (CfR) is something every organization should consider trying first (even if they rule it out) before moving to more formal, investigative, disciplinary, or legal remedies. At the core of this process is a simple question: What do you respect in the other person?

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Repeatable processes and procedures add great value in stable and predictable times. Principles, not process and procedures, provide the overarching guidance in any situation for making the right decisions and taking the best action. Five Paradigm-Shifting Principles. Those are not the times we live in today or likely in the future.

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Lead from Within

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

In the dynamic realm of leadership, the significance of corporate culture cannot be emphasized enough. Resistance to Change: In a rapidly changing business environment, adaptability is paramount. However, even the most robust cultures can benefit from a periodic reset. Very few understand why or how to prevent it.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 15, 2024

Our thought processes are full of all sorts of cognitive distortions, from catastrophizing (thinking of small problems as enormous impediments) to perfectionism, where anything less than perfect execution causes intense frustration. What an easy create an optimistic frame of mind! What was the best part of your day?

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 17, 2024

The Case Against Long CEO Tenures In the corporate world, longevity in a leadership role is often seen as a sign of stability and success. CEOs who have been in their position for a long time may resist change and prefer to stick to familiar strategies instead of embracing new ones.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

By investing in coaching your board chair, your organization can unlock the full potential of its leadership team, paving the way for innovation, collaboration, and sustainable growth. One of the critical benefits of board chair coaching is the development of practical leadership skills.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 1, 2020

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in January 2020. To do this, the author analyzes the process of creating a curriculum, preparing for an eighty-minute class, managing the fifteen minutes before class begins, and evaluating the nature of the teaching experience after the session concludes.

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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! What resistance to change do you experience?

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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 23, 2013

In ‘ Resistance to Change. Fear of Temporary Incompetence ’ … I shared some ideas on how to work with resistance to change : Fear of temporary incompetence. During the transition process, you do not feel competent because you have given up the old way and have not yet mastered the new one. Edgar Schein. Photo Credit.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 4, 2024

He quickly pivoted Microsoft from being a company that sold boxed software to a global computing engine that rents out its processing power and online storage to businesses. Doesn’t micromanaging and process smother creativity? Those who resisted—and many did at first—were often given a stern talking-to by Nadella himself.

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Engaging Leader

DECEMBER 6, 2012

In this episode, Jesse and Megan discuss continuous improvement and how to handle resistance to change. The practice of continuous improvement by definition requires change … people making changes that continuously improve a process. Together they explore the following questions: We hear that people are naturally resistant to change.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 2, 2019

Welcome to the April Leadership Development Carnival. We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, productivity, development, engagement, team building, and more. Linda Fisher Thornton of Leading in Context provided 16 Answers to What is Good Leadership? Development.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Stop thinking about managing the risk of technology, tools, and process improvement. 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. The post Leadership and Digital Transformation appeared first on The Executive Hub.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

It’s not an overnight process, but the long-term payoff is immense: to finally break out of the frenetic day-to-day routine and transform your life, leadership, and your career. The books I mention in this episode are: How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Econom y by Jenny Odell. That’s playing The Long Game.

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Lead from Within

MARCH 1, 2024

AI Will Inevitably Become an Organizational Norm: The third insight emphasizes that AI will inevitably become an integral part of every organization, whether we resist it or not. Leaders should proactively explore how AI can augment their operations, leading to more efficient processes and improved outcomes.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Your team will need extra time and space to process their feelings. Help your team process their feelings. And it’s likely people on your team have good friends caught up in this process on top of some other traumatic stress they’re dealing with. Give people the time and space to process what’s happening.

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Ron Edmondson

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

There are leadership bottlenecks all leaders need to avoid. I have also learned that the term bottleneck matters in the field of leadership. Leaders should aim to never be a bottleneck in the process of building a healthy and growing organization. The leader is people-pleasing or change-resistant. Consider how Jesus led.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Each year, after reading and reviewing dozens of new leadership books, I select my pick for the year's best new leadership book. For 2023, after reading nearly 40 leadership books, my pick for this year’s best new leadership book is When Everyone Leads. Leadership is interactive, risky, and experimental.

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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 22, 2013

In ‘ Resistance to Change. Fear of Temporary Incompetence ’ … I shared some ideas on how to work with resistance to change : Fear of temporary incompetence. During the transition process, you do not feel competent because you have given up the old way and have not yet mastered the new one. Edgar Schein. Photo Credit.

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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 24, 2013

In ‘ Resistance to Change. Fear of Temporary Incompetence ’ … I shared some ideas on how to work with resistance to change : Fear of temporary incompetence. During the transition process, you do not feel competent because you have given up the old way and have not yet mastered the new one. Edgar Schein. Photo Credit.

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Joseph Lalonde

AUGUST 21, 2015

What’s The Process? The process is simple. The process is the journey we take from where we’re at to where we belong. But we struggle and fight and resist the plans God has for us. We want our way in the process. Stop Getting Lost In The Process. Question: Are you lost in the process?

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