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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.”. Whenever changes are made at work- an employee is given a new task or a new way to do a current task- there will be resistance. It’s human nature to resist new responsibilities or rules. Part of being a leader is managing change.

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

Strategy Driven

The problem is resistance. 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. Do you know what’s stopping you or your company from making the changes necessary to have more success?

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Trait-centered Leadership vs. Servant Leadership

Strategy Driven

What if the leader's goal overrides the mental models, beliefs or historic experiences of the followers, or the change is pushed against the follower's values, and resistance ensues? It will more than meet the vision of the leaders (although it might look different), and the followers will own it with no resistance.

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Get the Yes: Winning Funding, RFPs, and Grants

Strategy Driven

We offered a cover page and a couple of pages of Facilitative Questions [a new type of question I developed that enables Responders to assemble/recognize unconscious, systemic criteria - in this case, regarding implementation, buy-in/consensus, resistance issues that would be a natural fall-out from a project of this size].

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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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Can Collaboration Work?

Strategy Driven

Anyone who will touch the final solution must be present to move forward or there will be fallout, sabotage, and resistance: there is no way to compensate (as per creativity or consensus) once a meeting is held with folks missing. No restrictions. Collaborators must enter with no assumptions. Consider leaving a comment!

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Getting To Agreement

Strategy Driven

It’s possible that by pushing our own agendas and not focusing on what might be common values and consensus, we are perpetuating harm and causing others to defend their beliefs. Change needs consensus: win-win is key (we know there is no such thing as win/lose). Avoiding Resistance. Hearing Agreement. About the Author.