Lead Change Blog

MARCH 25, 2021

When I conduct workshops on building trust, participants often ask me for advice about how they can tell someone they don’t trust them. Resist the urge to over-generalize or soft-pedal the feedback. People are dependable if they behave in ways that show they are reliable, responsive, and accountable.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 21, 2016

Struggling to resist checking your phone? Recent research shows that strengthening willpower is the real secret to the kind of self-control that can help you resist temptations and achieve your goals. In a recent study , scientists first drained the willpower of participants through having them resist temptation.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 27, 2023

The objectives and goals should be communicated clearly to all stakeholders, including employees, leaders, and the EOS implementer , to ensure a shared understanding and commitment to the EOS vision. Change management strategies should be in place to address resistance and challenges that may arise during the implementation journey.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 30, 2020

Leaders improve the chance of success if they proactively address those concerns, rather than finding themselves on their heels having to react to resistant employees. Instead of spinning the truth, evading answers, or tap-dancing around difficult questions, admit you don’t know but commit to finding the answer.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

It’s always felt right to teach these skills this way because the participants walk out with some confidence that they can do something that doesn’t always come easy. Therefore, I only agree to do the workshop if the organization sponsoring it will commit to having some follow up to keep the skills alive for their leaders.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 5, 2017

The potential for change increases with our participation in the process. Get commitment to change; then get Commitment to Change (note the capital letters). Finally, get COMMITMENT TO CHANGE. Don’t start with the all capital change, because you’ll probably encounter quite a bit of resistance.

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Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 21, 2014

Some people relish change; most resist, consciously or unconsciously. Since its founding in 1935, AA has helped many alcoholics change their attitudes, language and behaviors to resist drinking alcohol despite the extremely unpleasant sensations of withdrawal. When everyone participates and has a voice, it increases unity.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 1, 2020

As more people worldwide participate equally in business, those assumptions of a leader's ideal profile have become irrelevant. Full-spectrum thinking is the ability to seek patterns and clarity outside, across, beyond, or maybe even without any boxes or categories while resisting false certainty and simplistic binary choices.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

They inspired others by evoking emotions, and they circumvented resistance by deploying smart grit.” Team members need to “debate the issues, consider alternatives, challenge one another, listen to minority views, scrutinize assumptions, and enable every participant to speak up without fear of retribution.” You’ve got to inspire them.

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HR Digest

APRIL 10, 2024

From innovative approaches to professional development to holistic well-being initiatives tailored to diverse workforce needs, Blackstone’s commitment to its employees shines through. This is a true testament to our commitment to growing talent from within our ranks. The private equity industry is known for its demanding nature.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2014

Participants were given a well-defined purpose for the unique dining exercise. People can be forced to comply; but they cannot be driven to commitment. Change Management Is Amplified By Broad Based Participation. People do not resist change. Change Management Starts With Compelling Rationale.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 30, 2013

Mentors agree that you can rely on a certain level of resistance when it comes to identifying development opportunities. When managers feel that development is unnecessary, they’re reluctant to participate in any form of assessment, or they participate in the assessment and then immediately ignore the results.

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HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Unsurprisingly, 91 percent of the participating organizations committed to continuing the 4-day system. Individuals working a 4-day week report reduced stress levels and an improved resistance to work stress. For some, family time is on priority. For others, their physical health gets more attention.

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The Practical Leader

MAY 20, 2020

“The very essence in all power to influence lies in getting the other person to participate. “The more that top management wants internal commitment from its employees, the more it must try to involve employees in defining work objectives, specifying how to achieve them, and setting stretch targets.”

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Engagement: In the old strategy paradigm participation is limited to the involvement of the senior team, a few staff functions and an external consultant that facilitate the process. Any resistance to change would simply be overcome with rules, policies and managers to force compliance.

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Change Starts Here

JANUARY 12, 2017

Unfortunately, there are at least three pitfalls to demanding mandatory requirements: Leaders often don’t wield enough power or commitment to be that authoritarian. Taking the mandatory approach can force the initial action to happen, but it doesn’t create ongoing commitment to participate in the change.

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 23, 2023

In A Tale of Two Managers: Command versus Commitment , I contrasted two leaders, Denise and Joel. Joel tries to overpower resistance to change with facts and force. Don’t allow yourself and your management team to be hijacked by the tiny minority of people who will never be committed, passionate, or trustworthy.

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Change Starts Here

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

When you invite people to participate in the effort and involve them in developing the change in their own area, you then let people feel like the change is theirs to implement. Resistance Mitigation. Once you uncover the underlying reasons for this resistance, most of them are valid, or at least understandable.

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Leading with Trust

JULY 12, 2020

Leaders improve the chance of success if they proactively address those concerns, rather than finding themselves on their heels having to react to resistant employees. Instead of spinning the truth, evading answers, or tap-dancing around difficult questions, admit you don’t know but commit to finding the answer.

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Change Starts Here

JANUARY 8, 2015

In the extreme, this approach frustrates people and increases resistance. On the other side of the scale are all the other ways to influence, for example, tapping into values, inviting people to participate, communicating the vision and “the why”, or understanding and helping people through their resistance and fears.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 15, 2019

It reminds us that resistance training can benefit people regardless of both their age and previous levels of fitness. Muscle biopsies were taken from participants both before and after the exercise to show how the muscles were responding to exercise, with an isotope tracer used to show how proteins were developing inside the muscle.

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Change Starts Here

AUGUST 6, 2013

Remove doubt about the change by addressing objections, respecting resistance, and reducing risk. Invite Participation. Invite them to participate by asking for ideas and input. Ask for commitment and delegate responsibility for implementing pieces of the initiative. Generate short-term wins to prove the change will work.

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Change Starts Here

MARCH 11, 2014

That support — in all its forms — shows the rest of the organization that leaders are committed to seeing the change through. Along with your participation in this live webinar, you will also receive PDF and MS PowerPoint templates you can use immediately to implement what you’ve learned. Gain Leadership Support.

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CO2

JANUARY 10, 2014

There are four primary objectives for meetings: Solving a problem/coming to a decision; Introducing key information synchronously and dynamically; Generating the best and greatest number of original ideas; Gaining commitment around a change effort. Who are potential resisters and why? Objective: solving a problem/coming to a decision.

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Change Starts Here

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Some are too busy to fully commit the personal energy required to participate. Getting people involved who are already excited and committed is easier. You can better gauge their buy-in and assess their resistance when they are part of the conversation. Some are too far from the situation to make a useful contribution.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 22, 2015

Key leaders or key groups are not aligned and committed to the intent of the initiative. Impacted groups are expected to push back on the changes required to achieve initiative realization, but there are no plans on how to manage resistance to change. There is little or no strategic intent/value defined up front.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 27, 2015

In the case of making changes to your workplace environment, even though your employees might be working in a toxic workplace, many of them will be resistant to changes in their environment because of the uncertainty this evokes in their brain. It’s something that Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Change Starts Here

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

In one of the workshop exercises, participants fill out a Leadership Support chart. For example, a recent workshop participant was the change management lead on a forthcoming project to automate inventory tracking in a manufacturing plant. You don’t want reduce support by causing resistance.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

By 2003, not all industrial companies were fully committed to accommodating their organizations to new tools and following the principles described in Experimentation Matters. Why do many business leaders resist it? A result is the human tendency to commit such errors when we observe things or hear anecdotes.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 9, 2015

Guest post from Paul Axtell: Any time you lead or participate in a meeting, you are going to be confronted with situations and behaviors that don’t work. Interrupting, using technology, having side conversations, hijacking the conversation, resisting what someone says, etc.) Take a moment and answer these two questions: 1.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 26, 2014

Why We Resist Change. I have asked over 50,000 participants in my training programs to rate themselves in terms of their performance relative to their professional peers – 80-85% rank themselves in the top 20% of their peer group – and about 70% rank themselves in the top 10%. Optimists tend to chronically over-commit.

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Change Starts Here

OCTOBER 2, 2014

When people aren’t doing what they said they will, or aren’t reacting to change in ways that make sense, it can be easy to fault them for not supporting or participating in change. Provide feedback to and address the resistance of leaders and anyone else. Work With People, Not Against Them.

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Change Starts Here

MAY 4, 2016

Because you’re driving everything forward, you end up being seen as the person who is leading the change, with leaders being observers and participants. And how can you best support the leader to follow through on that commitment? Send reminders to help them follow through on their commitments. Coach and Share Feedback.

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Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

When we do what we choose to do, we're more committed to it and enthusiastic about it. They were committed to teaching and to the success of their students - rather than being controlled by external forces, such as a steady paycheck or summer vacations. The more successful someone is, the more likely this is the case. Life is good.

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Coaching Tip

AUGUST 26, 2015

Being open to learning, resisting the dangers of isolation, and accepting some level of vulnerability are critical elements of sustainable leadership. Leadership is an interactive conversation that pulls people toward becoming comfortable with the language of personal responsibility and commitment. .

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Change is inevitable and so is the resistance to change. The Toyota president’s decision to hold weekly meetings with the front-line workers to openly discuss their concerns demonstrated his leadership commitment. By Kaity Nakagoshi. People are often not welcoming of change unless it is implemented by leadership correctly.

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Your Voice of Encouragement

JUNE 4, 2013

Your instinct might be to argue or defend your own position, but you have to resist that impulse. Again, you have to resist the urge to argue or defend your position. Check for commitment. Conflict cannot survive without your participation.” Could you tell me more about that?” At this stage, all you do is listen.

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