Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Many remarkable leaders resist giving any feedback (positive or less positive) because they attempt to lead by being a remarkable friend. This praise recognizes excellence but all forms of feedback are needed to foster continuous improvement and maintain high standards.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Overcoming Challenges and Obstacles in the Executive Coachee Journey One of the primary challenges executives face in their coaching journey is resistance to change. Executives can enhance their leadership effectiveness and drive organizational success by consistently seeking feedback and actively working toward improvement.

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 30, 2019

During a keynote presentation on balancing technical expertise, management, and leadership at a company conference of senior managers, I discussed how very smart managers with deep technical expertise frequently direct rather than develop others (often seen as micromanaging). Many leaders don’t know what they don’t know.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Attending the training and conferences that other team members gain insight from can also be fruitful. HR teams might be resistant to growing their workload or investing such vast amounts of time in learning every aspect of the company’s business proceedings. This is how a company can hope to grow.

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Deming Institute

APRIL 15, 2019

Peter Scholtes shared his thoughts on A Practical Approach to Change: Some Strategies and Tools at the 1991 Ohio Quality and Productivity Forum conference. He closed with: People don’t resist change. People resist being changed. If you want to minimize resistance to change, involve people.

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Great Results Team Building

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

It is a question I hear dozens of times from people at speaking events and conferences… It is a questions that I am sure YOU have asked yourself if you have EVER been on a team before… And the question is: “ How Do You Create Buy-In and Get People To Go All-In? Grow relationships with unique activities.

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Great Results Team Building

JUNE 12, 2014

People don’t resist change. They resist being changed!”. This list of 28 great quotes to inspire and help manage change may be useful to remind yourself and your coworkers of the needs and benefits that motivate successful people to not only welcome it, but to become advocates and champions for progress. Leo Tolstoy. Jack Welch.

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MAY 14, 2018

We warn them, however, that when you put that freak flag in the air, resistance will come. The hard work of authenticity is when you are confronted with resistance and asked to make compromise in order to get what you want. So, when we show them a process for how to become more authentic, they are eager to go on that journey.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

This too can be done, with the right approach and tools, and it works particularly well in a private conference room, far away from the eyes and ears of the rest of the company. Still, we’ve seen some of the most determined organizations embark on the effort to identify high-potential leaders, only to be stymied by philosophical resistance.

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leaderCommunicator

JUNE 3, 2014

We’ve all been to the classic planning meeting, at a conference or in an executive’s office, to think through a compelling issue or crisis at an organization. While I’m not in the product promotion business, I was so impressed by a new crowd-sourcing technology I recently encountered that I can’t resist sharing my experience.

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Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 27, 2013

With travel, conferences and organization development, team development, consulting and coaching work supplied me with more ideas and inspiration to work with. Resistance to Change. How to Avoid Your Brain Being Eaten … This is my personal favorite. Favorite Images Used in Workshops and Presentations 2013. Results vs. Process.

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Modern Servant Leader

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

I presented these principles at a leadership conference last month. Unfortunately, there are plenty of commentators that believe it is greed motivating the NFL to resist solving this lockout. In responding to this incident, the NFL does not seem to have learned from historic social media crises. Media leadership principles.

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Deming Institute

DECEMBER 18, 2017

This webcast shows David Langford’s presentation, When Grading Bites the Dust, at the 2012 Annual Deming Conference. A previous post ( Change has to Start from the Top ) includes a clip from another talk he gave at the 2012 conference and it is a valuable companion to the video included here. Guest post by John Hunter.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Biologically ironic to our human nature, most people adamantly resist change. He is also a published author, conference speaker, and corporate trainer. Anybody with even the slightest amount of experience leading change can certainly identify with these similarities. Yet it remains one of the only constants in life.

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Deming Institute

MAY 20, 2019

Leading The Transformation Process, Barbara Lawton’s presentation at the 1993 Ohio Quality and Productivity Forum conference: Aim of Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge in Barbara’s words (building on Deming’s quote “ provide jobs and more jobs “).

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Ultimately, managing people is always an individual project, but those within organizations… As you move away from clear lines of authority, you increasingly encounter others who can resist, ignore, or sabotage your leadership. I am slowly noting the differences and similarities, as a good life-long learner should do.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Small ways to incorporate this into your everyday world might include doing some community service, volunteering to work with a non-profit, and setting an intention to learn new things at that next conference. I sense your resistance to this one. Block out thinking time. After all, blocking out time to think feels unproductive.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2018

You know the signs when you’re on a conference call with someone: You make a point or ask a question, and after a second or two of silence, you hear ums, ahhs, and the clicking of a keyboard in the background. Watch this very amusing “ conference call in real life ” video to see how ineffective these calls can be.

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Steve Farber

JUNE 9, 2015

At a recent conference in Australia, I had the opportunity to raise the personal nature of my business another significant rung. But I’ve resisted. Wood , the man behind the Amplified Leadership Conference, insisted that I not only speak at his event, but that I play music, too. But, my friend, David T.S.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Small ways to incorporate this into your everyday world might include doing some community service, volunteering to work with a non-profit, and setting an intention to learn new things at that next conference. I sense your resistance to this one. Block out thinking time. After all, blocking out time to think feels unproductive.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

I often feel awkward when I go to a conference. But when my plane from New York landed in Austin, Texas for South By Southwest, the music, film, and interactive conference, I was excited. But when my plane from New York landed in Austin, Texas for South By Southwest, the music, film, and interactive conference, I was excited.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

In our work of leading change in higher education and teaching students and executives about the change management process, we’ve gained a deep understanding of why resistance happens and what leaders can do to overcome it. Identifying the Sources of Resistance. Then you have to unstick them. We all operate at different speeds.

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Deming Institute

MAY 20, 2019

Leading The Transformation Process, Barbara Lawton’s presentation at the 1993 Ohio Quality and Productivity Forum conference: Aim of Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge in Barbara’s words (building on Deming’s quote “ provide jobs and more jobs “).

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Women on Business

JANUARY 18, 2013

That’s OK in the beginning when you’re trying to earn a reputation, but part of acting like a big business is resisting the temptation to under sell yourself. It’s not by lowering your pricing or throwing in extra products or services. Also, not everything happens online.

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Next Level Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

I had just finished a day of delivering workshops for a client company management conference and was in my room getting ready to end the day with an hour or two on the beach. Much like 9/11, I imagine a lot of people will remember where they were when they heard the news of the shootings and bombings in Paris.

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Ron Edmondson

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Change will always face resistance – it’s human nature, but some churches can and will adapt. Conferences do a great job focusing on the church planter — few focus as much on revitalization. Most don’t want to admit there is a problem, but it is incredibly helpful in starting the revitalization process.

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 4, 2012

Based on their ongoing research, The Conference Board of Canada concludes, “Building leadership capacity has been a top priority for several years, at least on paper. These timely issues are being addressed by the Conference Board of Canada’s powerful conference Leadership Matters 2012: Building Leadership Capacity.

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Skip Prichard

MARCH 10, 2020

Although many mentoring pairs resist having a structured mentoring relationship, we have found that they find the structure to be freeing because they don’t have to wonder what to do or say every time. People sometimes resist closure because they are afraid it will be awkward. Coming to closure isn’t something most think about.

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Rich Gee Group

APRIL 2, 2014

Sometimes I have conferences with parents and they come in on the defense. Instead, initially show some resistance to their statement(s) and as time progresses, begin to show them that you are coming around to their idea/ that perhaps you have changed your view. Compliment first. At least until they calm down. Want to make friends?

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Tony Mayo

AUGUST 22, 2009

Illiterates resisted, saying that all the items were useful. Luria ] Illiterates also resisted giving definitions of words and refused to make logical inferences about hypothetical situations. Literates saw optical illusions; illiterates sometimes didn’t. Work by Aleksandr R.

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Ron Edmondson

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

But it comes across as arrogant and is always resisted when I’m always the one with the answers. . So, I read, attend conferences and try to learn best practices and from the experiences of others. But it is a continual tension regardless of how long I’ve been in a position. Yes, I have experience.

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Ron Edmondson

JULY 30, 2019

That’s why I encourage attending conferences when possible. And the best part – there is always less resistance to major change when change is a part of the culture. The quickest way to spur organizational change: Expose leaders to new ideas. Often faster than any other way. I pass along blogs, podcasts and articles I read.

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The Practical Leader

MARCH 19, 2012

In partnership with 12 worldwide management organizations like The Conference Board, American Management Association, the Chartered Management Institute and others in Europe, Asia, and other countries, the survey sought input from 1,600 senior executives on 20 organizational capabilities. on April 18 in Toronto.

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Ron Edmondson

OCTOBER 25, 2018

I shared these many times in conferences, but I haven’t yet shared them here on my blog in this form. I would always say at conferences to begin something like, “Let me get this out of the way first. Change is never popular with everyone, but when you resist it, you are resisting the opportunity to grow.

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Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 10, 2012

Read a good book, hang out with someone positive, or attend a conference. Resist – Push through the pain and resist the temptation to quit. Here are 10 words of hope to help you get back in the game: Recharge – Recharge your drained batteries. Rest – Struggles drain us personally.

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Ron Edmondson

APRIL 24, 2012

Read a good book, hang out with someone positive, or attend a conference. Resist – Push through the pain and resist the temptation to quit. Here are 10 words of hope to help you recover from a broken dream: Recharge – Recharge your drained batteries. Find the way you gain energy. You may need a sabbatical.

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Anese Cavanaugh

AUGUST 18, 2014

I got a phone call a couple of weeks back from a gentlemen I’d met at a conference over 5 years ago. And, if there are guffaws and push backs, be open to learning from their resistance –but don’t let it define you. I promised to follow up and potentially do some work together, I didn’t.” Stand strong.

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