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Five Ways Leaders Turns Doubters into Doers

Chart Your Course

said, “A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus, but a molder of consensus.”. Use meetings and internal communications – emails, newsletters, flyers – to explain the changes in a positive light. , but was improperly communicating the message so that employees would understand the change. As Martin Luther King Jr.

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Do They See the Leader You’re Trying to Be?

The Practical Leader

” Their Perceptions Are My Leadership Reality Key to leadership development is understanding how others see me. In his latest newsletter, Joe Folkman draws from Zenger Folkman’s 360 database to provide keys for Staying In The Learning Zone. ” Personal development with an external coach.

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Do You Really Need a Meeting to Make a Decision? Five Keys to.

Kevin Eikenberry

A consensus decision – a decision where the leader themselves isn’t making the decision, but truly the full group comes to the decision collectively. Duncan Brodie Reply Sonja Froyen January 26, 2011 at 11:05 am Sometimes leaders forfeit their role in a consensus decision. I completely agree with your other three points!

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Steps Along The Buying Decision Path

Strategy Driven

Consensus stage. Buy-in and consensus necessary. I started up a tech company in London 1983-89 and developed Buying Facilitation  to teach my sales folks to navigate buyers through their decision path, change management, and buy-in BEFORE they began selling. It’s The Consensus, Stupid*. Choice stage.

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The One GRAND Leadership Illusion That Sinks Organizations & Performance

The Empowered Buisness

Consensus: Your team, industry peers, the media, etc. They buy into the same reason. “ Of course, the economy is to blame.” Consensus grows and resignation becomes contagious within your company and industry. Developing strategies and plans is a healthy practice for leaders to do. all validate your reason. This meme ….

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How Sales, Marketing and Social Can Facilitate the Decision Path

Strategy Driven

it might be just a resource); Social believes that by engaging in relationships over time and developing trust, followers will come back when they are ready. I then developed Buying Facilitation ® to add to the front end of the sales model. Facilitative Questions are a type of criteria-recognition and choice format I developed.

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Resistance to Guidance: Why Sales, Coaching, and Leadership Practices Falter

Strategy Driven

Simply, a system – for the sake of this article families, corporations, or individuals – is: a collection of policies, beliefs, agreements, goals and history, uniquely developed over time, which. It’s The Consensus, Stupid*. To understand why our status quo is tenacious we must understand systems. embrace uniform rules that are.