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Enhance Change and Organization Development: 6 Methods for Success

Mike Cardus

Persuasion skills: The ability to effectively persuade and influence stakeholders is essential, particularly when faced with resistance or political challenges. Using language or data that resonates with key individuals can help overcome resistance and facilitate a win-win-win outcome.

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Brands, Leadership and the Climate Crisis

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Sean Pillot de Chenecey : Innovation, on which any organisation is so reliant, is about to become more dynamic and challenging than ever. Major action is needed, with businesses in every industry, including the ever-widening area of innovation, having crucial roles to play.

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Choosing Courage

Leading Blog

Courage to innovate and grow. Author and consultant John Izzo wrote, “We must live with courage, moving toward what we want rather than away from what we fear.”. If you take issue with everything (most things), you will be labeled as a troublemaker, and your influence will be compromised. Courage to see the right thing done.

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Your People are the Hard, not the Soft Side, of Change

Great Leadership By Dan

When I, CrisMarie, was consulting with Blue Cross Blue Shield in the early 2000s, I was lucky enough to get certified in the Leading and Managing Organizational Transitions through William Bridges & Associates. What seems like resistance is often fear of the unknown. This fear mires them in resistance.

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Leadership & Initiative Overload | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

This is the definition of presence, and it is only when we operate in the present that real creativity, growth and innovation occur. Resist the temptation to just advance a broad number of disparate initiatives, and alternatively focus your efforts on the completion of a few high impact objectives. I Think Not.

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The Three Types of Workplace Courage

Leading Blog

Innovation takes courage because it requires creating ideas that are ground-breaking and tradition-defying; great ideas always start out as blasphemy! TRUST Courage involves resisting the temptation to control other people. Consider, for example, all the other concepts that courage connects to in workplace settings. TRUST Courage.

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Leaders Share about New Beginnings, Fresh Starts, and Project Launches: A Frontline Festival

Let's Grow Leaders

Next month’s Festival is all about leading through influence. According to John Hunter of Curious Cat Management Improvement , innovation is one of the areas of management improvement that is not given sufficient attention. The July Frontline Festival is about leading through influence. New contributors welcome.

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