Lead Change Blog

JULY 20, 2016

How Today’s Leaders Manage Culture Change. Leaders also know that change can create resistance. They recognize the resistance surfacing when they hear employees speaking of the cultural change effort as something that will pass with time–if they wait long enough it will go away.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 20, 2021

Every entrepreneur wishes to start a company and scale it to the highest possible peak with little market resistance. As a business owner, you should consider outsourcing some of your online responsibilities to IT managed services that help develop marketing campaigns, create social media content and optimize your website effectively.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 29, 2016

No, but everything you do communicates something about you, and your message will have an audience. Feedback lets you know what your “audience” is receiving. Their default wiring might mean they are resistant to teaching or change because they don’t take constructive criticism seriously enough.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2022

Would you highlight just one for our audience that illustrates your principles? The company had an avid following among comic-book readers, but no general audience. What advice would you share with the middle manager, who may feel the organization has no strategy or that it doesn’t apply, to use the Crux to make her team stand out?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

The audience is. So expect them to resist. Resistance doesn't have to be a bad thing. In fact, if you prepare for it, you'll sharpen your presentation and stand a much better chance of winning your audience over. Practical resistance: Is it physically or geographically difficult for the audience to do what you're asking?

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Strategy Driven

JULY 7, 2020

A prospect to which they may have been resistant for the longest time. Your branding needs to tell the audience a story. At a time when most of the consuming world has had to remain indoors, the retail sector in particular has had to face some particularly hard truths. Embrace brand storytelling. We human beings love stories.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 5, 2023

It’s not about having the top job or the ability to command huge audiences. Question: What's your book's most important takeaway for readers? The Authors : We want readers to know that leadership is not about position or authority. Leadership is engaging others to solve daunting challenges and achieve big aspirations.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

And, as anyone who closely follows simulation and prototyping tools knows, their use has become pervasive in manufacturing businesses, even though companies still grapple with the integration and management issues I wrote about in 2003. Why do many business leaders resist it? ” -Stefan Thomke. It was immediately launched.

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Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 30, 2010

A presentation should take the audience on a journey from their ordinary world into your special world, gaining new insights and skills from your special world. The audience makes a conscious decision to cross the threshold into your world; they are not forced. Have you experienced this path in your presentations?

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 24, 2011

Today’s piece is a guest post by Mike Figliuolo , the founder and Managing Director of thoughtLEADERS, LLC. Chunk up the information into manageable bites. When you chunk your ideas up into groups of three, it’s manageable, understandable, and memorable. I encourage you to check out his blog, which you can subscribe to here.

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

When the latter happens, it’s often because the writers get too caught up in their own ideas that they overlook the more important aspects of storytelling – their audience and the message they wish to leave them with.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 4, 2023

Ed, teacher, CEO, college president, city manager, school board member) and based on stories we’ve heard in our leadership development programs over the last 15 years. It’s not about having the top job or the ability to command huge audiences. We share our own stories of leadership success and failures. And leadership is for everyone.

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Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Companies don''t have an easy way to make these conversations available to a wider audience or even have a record of them for the future. It is the way we manage our organizations. But it isn''t just the systems. It''s the processes as well. And that means the infrastructure for social networks is now in place.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 3, 2023

With an overreliance on positive phrases and an absolute paranoia about anything that could be construed as negative, it might be the right time to help managers out with some useful things to say in a performance review. You demonstrate remarkable adaptability in adjusting your communication style to suit different audiences and situations.”

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 30, 2023

Ed, teacher, CEO, college president, city manager, school board member) and based on stories we’ve heard in our leadership development programs over the last 15 years. It’s not about having the top job or the ability to command huge audiences. We share our own stories of leadership success and failures. And leadership is for everyone.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 27, 2014

Magazine which recognized me as one of the Top 100 Leadership and Management Experts , putting me alongside such leadership heavyweights as Sir Richard Branson, Vineet Nayar, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Peter F. In those moments, it’s easy for us to resist the forces of change, insisting on sticking to what we know.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 10, 2019

Within a short time, your audience will grow, and you won’t have to boost posts regularly to reach many people. But before starting email marketing campaigns, you need to make sure that you are marketing to the right audience. This could be a freebie like an eBook in your niche that solves some problems your audience faces.

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In the CEO Afterlife

NOVEMBER 20, 2011

The rationale for wishy-washy strategic management is less brand mentoring by seasoned strategists. Coke’s very effective riposte to The Pepsi Generation was the I’d Like to Teach The World To Sing, also embodied in a song. The jingle stands the test of time and continues to tug at the human heartstings.

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Experience to Lead

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Whether it be a global pandemic, a company restructuring or a merger, a leadership strategy is crucial if you want to manage shifts and times of uncertainty. Your approach to creating a leadership development strategy must consider your audience and how they will best respond to your leadership style.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 21, 2012

The more transparent the envi­ronment the more willing leaders will be to share resources in support of the shared goals of the entire business, and the harder it will be for resisters to hoard them. Ultimately, it's as much a mindset as it is a process.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 13, 2011

By leveraging the expertise and dynamic solutions of Communispond , you can successfully influence your audience and drive business results. Resist the temptation to tell the boss every little detail to show you’re ready for all possible glitches that could delay the project. Step 2: Report the headlines. Net out what’s important.

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CO2

JANUARY 10, 2014

The traditional model of learning–with a speaker disseminating information to a passive audience–has been proven ineffective. Who are potential resisters and why? Business Meeting Management' If the only goal is to provide information that can be read and easily understood, send a report or presentation to everyone.

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Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Since the release of my first book last fall, I’ve been on an incredible journey speaking to organizations and audiences in Europe, the Middle East, Canada, and the US, sharing my insights on leadership and how leaders can encourage and support their employees to bring their full selves to the work they do.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 29, 2019

You need to be proactive and you also need to get your site out there in front of the right audience. You need to write posts that people can’t resist sharing and ones that people would be proud to post to their site. Get on Social Media. In this day and age, producing great content is just not enough. So how do you get around this?

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Skip Prichard

JULY 8, 2019

Alf is Professor of Innovation, Design and Management at the University of Southern Denmark. He is a strategic adviser and professional speaker who has spoken to numerous audiences about innovation. “My Many more ideas have died from an indifferent shrug or an arrogant laugh than from being actively resisted.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 10, 2018

Your story does not, however, tell the audience everything they need to know in detail about what services you are going to provide. It can be a stressful environment and you may be managing the business on the side even when you and your team is in the middle of a job. Be specific in your services. Know your best bits.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2018

He had been surprised and annoyed to learn that his company had set up a new AI-based marketing system that was doing most of what he thought was his job as digital marketing manager at Global Consumer Brands: deciding what ads to place where, for which customer segments, and how much to spend. It’s not our audience!”

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Chris Brady

JANUARY 20, 2011

Children ask for stories to be told them but resist direct instruction. If you truly want to communicate, whether to a large audience or small, formally or informally, through the written word or spoken, you must realize the importance of creating a picture in the mind's eye(s) of your listener(s).

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2015

It’s equally about managing the first impression of your idea. This involves two components: how you position the idea; and how you address the first round of resistance that threatens to smother the conversation before it’s even begun. Outright resistance is often personal. Further Reading. Further Reading.

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Leading with Trust

JUNE 12, 2022

Many managers strive to be one. But being a first-time manager requires a whole new set of skills —for example, emotional intelligence—that are more important than technical expertise. Many managers either haven’t had the opportunity to develop these skills, are resistant to doing so, or don’t have an interest in them.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2014

You must do that in the face of vast forces arrayed against innovation within an established organization, which include inertia, resistance to change, fear of failure, financial disincentives, and the tendency of people and organizations to favor what has worked in the past.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

His letter announced a compensation restructuring, which accompanied a dismantling of hierarchy and the introduction of self-managed, self-organizing teams throughout the company. Two years in, Stayer fired three top managers because they kept deferring to him. ” Stayer soon became the darling of management gurus.

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Roundtable Talk

MARCH 4, 2010

Don’t look for or expect 100% support for your ideas… recognize that many people will be comfortable with the status quo and will resist change. Manage expectations… build failure into your plans and build space for things that are new. Join us next time when on March 31 st we look at Managing: The Tough Stuff. Happy leading!

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

The American Institute of Stress (AIS) reveals that 80% of us feel stress on the job and almost half say they need help in managing that stress. ” Managers must therefore take the time to bring their teams together and collectively create a set of agreements that form a team charter.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2016

But instead of running or fighting, which just creates more resistance and angst, simply observe those instincts and get comfortable with the idea that discomfort is part of the game. Therefore, it’s best to embrace nervousness rather than resist it or push it away.” For example: In a speaking situation, poll the audience.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

It was easy to pretend things were simple, even when they weren't: general aggregate numbers and basic demographic data served were "close enough" for understanding audiences. Now, though, media content is controlled as much by the audience as by traditional distributors. Transforming People into Data. Maintaining a Distance.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2016

The more your change effort disrupts those things, the more people will resist or even rage against it. In a PWC survey of more than 2,000 global executives, managers, and employees, only 54% of respondents said their change initiatives succeeded — and the most frequently cited problem (by 65% of those surveyed) was change fatigue.

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