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Developing shared goals that respect your expert status

Mike Cardus

The green arrows represent areas of cooperation that may occur when the goal & solution is established, all people are respected as the experts they are, trust is continued through the process. What examples of resistance / cooperation can you share? What do you think? How is the diagram useful? michael cardus is create-learning.

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December 2015 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Welcome to the December 2015 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! Jesse summarized: “Collaboration is a powerful tool that leads to break-through results, and is different from cooperation, coordination , and teamwork. We figure it might provide some gift-giving ideas for anyone who is stuck! Let’s Get Started.

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Advice: Manage Well by Leading Better

N2Growth Blog

By John Baldoni , Chair, Leadership Development, N2growth. That is a variation on a comment I heard recently from an executive who was speaking about the responsibilities that senior managers have to lead their organizations through change. Leadership is not a solitary endeavor; it only works with the cooperation of others.

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Six Ways to Improve Business Communication Skills for Greater Success

Career Advancement

His boss went on to describe a range of communication-related skills that would help Sean become a stronger leader, some of which Sean had never thought about developing. Plus, job training and coaching can often be done via virtual communication for a lower cost. Talkback: What business skills have you focused on developing?

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Use how each person and the team responds as a chance to make the learning even easier :: Resistance to Change

Mike Cardus

Being observant of how people react to change and constantly looking for how they cooperate will amplify each persons motivation to change. Having formal; informal; coaching; job aids; testing areas; work groups; subject matter experts; etc… through the change until it is complete and it is “ just what people do ”. Edgar Schein.

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8 Guidelines for Leadership Coaching and Team Building Activities

Mike Cardus

The effort is finding exceptions to the problem and determining how the team and person cooperate best. Then changing my interaction with them to cooperate in the best way to achieve shared goals. The guidelines above align with team building & executive coaching activities.

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Instead of Making People More Anxious. Make the Learning Easier :: Resistance to Change

Mike Cardus

It is helpful to listen, agree and cooperate. Talk to discover slightly different viewpoints for cooperation. Instead of viewing the resistance as an issue it gave me a chance to see how each person and the team as a whole cooperates. Making the new learning and skills feel natural and safe as possible. How to work with this?