Eric Jacobson

APRIL 22, 2024

Develop healing connections to keep burnout at bay. Getting unstuck from ingrained stress-response patterns is not a small task, and many of us will find ourselves resistant to change. The five EI skills are: Build self-awareness to identify what makes you vulnerable to burnout.

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Leading with Trust

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

“People don’t resist change; they resist being controlled.”. That’s simple truth #46 in my book, Simple Truths of Leadership: 52 Ways to Be a Servant Leader and Build Trust , co-written with Ken Blanchard. The truth is most people don’t actually resist change itself. In reality, they resist being controlled.

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Modern Servant Leader

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Nor does it matter what you are developing for next quarter, year or decade. Regardless, he resisted any attempt to go to bed. I pray this changes and believe if anyone can be successful in driving such a swing, it will be our servant leaders. It does not matter to Wall Street what you did last quarter, year or decade.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JUNE 27, 2010

It’s not worth stressing over if it gets in the way of developing the great relationships you need to get work done well. 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. What are you pushing uphill against?

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

They encourage resistance, partial/missed answers, and lies. These questions restrict possibility, cause resistance, create distrust, and encourage lying. These narrow the range of possible responses, often creating some form of resistance or defensive lies; they certainly cause defensiveness and distrust. What Is Change?

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 5, 2010

Most leaders that I work with could insert more inquiry into their leadership style. Inquiry (or more appropriately, asking questions to coach others to come up with their own solutions) is a central skill set for helping others to develop. Let’s see if we can respond the excuses leaders have for avoiding this skill.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Without an accurate idea of the status quo, one can never truly develop a new roadmap to their hopeful and anticipated future. We partner with great leaders to help them become even greater at developing, improving, and sustaining relationships with the people who are essential to their success. Thank you for the reminder!

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 23, 2016

I developed a model of How to Change congruently that adopts the new without resistance; I’ve been teaching this in sales, coaching, leadership, and change management. It’s the most difficult aspect of change – creating consistent, habitual actions – because it’s unconscious, systemic, and resistant.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JUNE 15, 2010

The major benefits are: Self correction: People who are consistently coached well can develop the capacity to correct themselves, without you there. Can you imagine the day when they are no longer expecting you to figure stuff out for them because they’ve developed the capacity to do so themselves? Thanks for adding these thoughts!

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 14, 2016

Cognitive Dissonance: When the content we share – words, questions, information, education, advice, written material – goes against someone’s (conscious or unconscious) personal beliefs and system of Self, we cause Cognitive Dissonance and resistance regardless of the efficacy of the information. I’ve developed them.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

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. As you reflect and practice new and better ways of interaction with others, what you’ve learned can be applied to developing healthier relationships.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 13, 2010

All of the above statements came from clients and readers recently. .&# “I didn’t know that developing as a leader would be so personal.&# “The things you write about leadership apply to our personal lives as well as our work lives.&# Yes, being a leader is darned personal. It’s also necessary.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 7, 2016

When I started up a tech company in London in 1983 and became a ‘buyer’ I realized the problem and developed a new skill set to migrate it. It includes people, systems, implementation, resistance, workarounds, relationships – and comes well before any decision is made to buy anything, and quite separate from any ‘need’.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

We partner with great leaders to help them become even greater at developing, improving, and sustaining relationships with the people who are essential to their success. This blog is for leaders and those who help them to be more intentional about relationships at work.

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

If you or your organization could use support developing your leads, let’s talk ! BEN: In this scene we saw several principles of servant-leadership reflected by Nelson Mandela – strongest of them: selflessness and empathy. Are there temptations you have to resist? Full Video Transcript. First, selflessness.

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Leading with Trust

JUNE 12, 2022

Many managers either haven’t had the opportunity to develop these skills, are resistant to doing so, or don’t have an interest in them. When you add up all these reasons, it’s easy to see why we have an empathy deficit among leaders and their people. The first step in your journey is investing in your own development.

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Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 21, 2019

Here at Modern Servant Leader, we often discuss the power of digital media to expand leadership. In this talk, you also hear my gratitude for the role you each play, in advancing the servant-leadership movement. Augustine would say we’re doing a poor job of being the Good that resists Evil. Choose an Evil to Resist.

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Joseph Lalonde

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

This caused David to ponder the meaning of his ability to resist sickness and injury. Develop your strengths: David began to believe he may have superpowers. As he began to grow in the belief of his powers, he began testing and developing his strengths. Your strengths aren’t fully developed the day you’re born.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

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. We were then able to get onto the Buying Decision Team early, lead buyers quickly through their unique decisions, and became great relationship managers, not to mention servant leaders.

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