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Resistance and Change – A Personal Experience | Aspire-CS

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Thought-full Thursday: Starting From What Is » Resistance and Change – A Personal Experience September 22nd, 2010 | Author: Mary Jo Asmus This is a more personal post than I usually write. The biggest challenge I experienced was that of letting go of my own resistance to accepting that I had something to learn.

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7 Ways to Enjoy Others at Work

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Stop striving and resisting. The effort it takes to strive and resist keeps us from seeing the people right in front of us who can help. Striving and resisting causes stress and makes us focus on ourselves instead of others. What are you pushing uphill against? Carve out time to do something (non-work) related that you enjoy.

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Thought-full Thursday: Starting From What Is

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The Asking Dilemma

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Let’s see if we can respond the excuses leaders have for avoiding this skill. Is it possible you are resisting for the same reasons? Sure, there might be some resistance as you change to incorporating more inquiry into your leadership style. Asking questions isn’t my style”. My employees want me to tell them the answers”.

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Coaching Others: Short Term Pain for Long Term Gain

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I believe there is resistance to almost anything that takes some time to learn or do. Peter Lanc : June 16, 2010 at 12:51 pm I think rather then pain, no need for that we are seeking learning moments that take people to a higher level of insightfulness Mary Jo Asmus : June 16, 2010 at 1:06 pm Jennifer, thanks.

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Where Are the Rewards for Reflection?

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Leadership requires a great deal of reflection in order to improve and change; yet we resist the idea of doing something that feels stagnant. we resist reflecting. The act of reflecting can us to become aware of our past actions in order to impact the future in a positive way. Nobody is out there giving us high fives for reflecting.

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Leadership is Darned Personal

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I began to see why clients sometimes resist the question, “What behaviors did your 360 indicate that you need to change?&# (a question often met with silence, avoidance, and then a change of topic to talk about that project or promotion they want).