Lead from Within

APRIL 3, 2024

Ignoring Innovation: CEOs who resist innovation and technological advancements can quickly fall behind their competitors. Neglecting Diversity and Inclusion: Ignoring diversity and inclusion efforts can limit an organization’s talent pool and lead to missed opportunities.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 19, 2024

Organizations undergoing transformations often operate diverse business lines across various markets, manage aging and complex IT environments, and navigate significant regulatory oversight. This complexity results in challenges such as unique perspectives and languages within diverse teams that hinder communication and accountability.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Instead, the researchers believe that older workers can play a crucial role in filling the employment gaps many organizations continue to face, due in large part to the diverse skill sets they’ve developed through their life. The post Employers Should Resist Any Urge To Sack Older Workers first appeared on The Horizons Tracker.

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Mike Cardus

APRIL 21, 2024

Resistance or silence from employees at the front and customer-facing line. This principle emphasizes the need to understand how power relationships and identity politics influence the acceptance and resistance to change. Facilitate inclusive practices that allow diverse voices to be heard.

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Mike Cardus

MAY 21, 2023

Diverse change tools and methods: A broad array of change tools, methods, maps, and philosophies provides you with a range of options to choose from. Persuasion skills: The ability to effectively persuade and influence stakeholders is essential, particularly when faced with resistance or political challenges.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The truth is that bringing on a new board director can be powerful and transformative because they will reshape the composition of the board, bring new skills to the boardroom, and has the potential to contribute diverse insights that pull the organization’s future forward. How Do You Recruit a Board of Directors?

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Lead from Within

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Resistance to change: Leaders with low emotional intelligence may have difficulty adapting to change, and they may be resistant to new ideas or ways of doing things.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Balancing competing priorities and effectively coordinating efforts across diverse teams can be demanding, often requiring executives to possess strong organizational skills and the ability to foster collaboration and alignment.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

By utilizing sophisticated assessment tools, executives can gather data on diverse aspects such as team collaboration, individual strengths, decision-making processes, and communication channels. This information helps leaders identify patterns, trends, and potential gaps within the team’s dynamics and performance.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 27, 2023

We need the diversity of thought that can come from anywhere. Resist the Allure of a Quick Fix. Ed O’Malley and Julia McBride believe that anyone can lead, not by being a leader, but by exercising leadership. And When Everyone Leads , our tough challenges get seen and solved. We need to choose leadership over comfort. Reorder Values.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 13, 2023

The airline industry has made concerted efforts to create a more diverse working environment. The findings also demonstrated that, while flight attendants occasionally employ subtle forms of resistance, they primarily adhere to traditional gender norms.

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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Clichés such as ‘We’ve always done it this way’ stem from a historical resistance to change. Quick, Impactful Actions against Stagnation In environments resistant to change, swift, targeted actions can create ripples that lead to significant transformation. The Power of Diversity in Organizations.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

For companies to develop and retain top talent, they need to seek diverse talent and ensure they feel comfortable within the space. Discriminatory practices are very counterproductive to a healthy organization and companies that turn a blind eye to them will face challenges and resistance at every stage of their work process.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 9, 2023

In addition, research continually shows that Millennials and Gen Z’s in particular, plus an increasing number of other generations, are wanting to work in places that are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Organizations that continue to ignore/resist this shift and try to force old processes are setting themselves up for failure.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 26, 2021

Resistance – concerns about returning to the workplace. Diversity and inclusion. Misalignment – rapidly growing misalignment between employers and employees, the latter who are looking for some form of recompense for all the additional work they have put in over the last 10 months. Support for employee mental health.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 23, 2023

While many patients appear resistant to the use of AI, accuracy of information, nudges and a listening patient experience may help increase acceptance,” the researchers explain. “To In the second phase, a blinded, randomized survey was administered to 2,472 participants spanning diverse ethnic, racial, and socioeconomic backgrounds.

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CO2

JANUARY 18, 2024

This rigidity manifests in a resistance to new ideas, a reluctance to adapt to changing circumstances, and an inability to tailor leadership styles to diverse team needs. Inflexibility: The Rigidity that Restrains Growth A study by the Harvard Business Review highlighted that inflexibility is a major downfall for leaders.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Both leaders shared a lack of humility and resistance to feedback. Next, choose a diverse group of people to ask these questions. We looked up and 90% of the managers had clustered around “prioritizing what matters most.” We suggested that if 90% of his managers felt that was an issue for them, it might be an issue for him.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2015

We all recognize diversity is important yet difficult to attain. We recognize that with diversity we’re capable of creating all that’s possible; without diversity we limit who gets heard, who gets to lead, what knowledge we deem important, what we teach our children. Avoiding Resistance. First read What ?

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Board chairs should strive to create an environment where open and honest dialogue is encouraged and diverse perspectives are valued. One of the main challenges is resistance to change. Another critical technique for enhancing board chair performance is to foster a culture of collaboration and teamwork.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2010

Episode 38a – Overcoming Resistance to Change, part 1 of 2 explores the three different types of resistance frequently encountered when implementing a business change, how to recognize each type, and the actions change leaders can take to overcome each of these objections.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 25, 2019

Psychological safety makes it possible for other drivers of success (talent, ingenuity, diversity of thought) to be expressed in ways that influence how work gets done.” We benefit from a diversity of views. Psychological safety is like the oil in the machine. It makes everything else you’re doing work better. It is an enabler.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 14, 2018

POWER YOUR TRIBE delves deeply into the emotional undertow that often accompanies growth and change, so leaders can learn how to remove change resistance. The blend of mapping diverse neuroscience research to practical tools and techniques has generated the many results clients rave about.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2017

If you didn’t agree with any portion of the assertion, would you vocalize your resistance or just ignore the argument and the arguer? I take consolation from the fact that I am still uncertain about how persuasive and presumptive I can be and still be open and honoring to diverse views.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 16, 2020

Distractions and diversions, intrusions and interruptions can make it hard for people to excel. Resist the temptation to tell them what to do; don’t be overly prescriptive or micromanage. Working remotely is not easy, especially for people who are relatively new to it. Listen carefully.

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HR Digest

APRIL 10, 2024

From innovative approaches to professional development to holistic well-being initiatives tailored to diverse workforce needs, Blackstone’s commitment to its employees shines through. Discover how Ross and her team embrace diversity and drive organizational success through unwavering resilience and belief in the potential of every individual.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 29, 2023

The results showed multiple stigmatizing perceptions about burnout syndrome, particularly that managers believe ex-burnout employees are less stress-resistant, have weaker leadership skills, and set a poor example. Stigma attached “However, we found that other stigma could explain additional parts of the puzzle.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 10, 2018

As Robert Kegan, a developmental psychologist, observes: “Successfully functioning in a society with diverse values, traditions and lifestyles requires us to have a relationship to our own reactions rather than be captive of them. Appreciate the power and possibility of differences; don’t marginalize those who see things differently.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 20, 2016

Add to the performance the context of a challenging economy, diverse worker needs, and the ever-present need for speed, and balls become sharp machetes; bowling pins become lighted torches. Leaders also know that change can create resistance. And they recognize resistance that may be borne in part out of a “fear of the unknown.”

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Being an effective manager requires fighting human nature—resisting the tendency for “like me” hiring and promotion, and realizing that the best team performance comes from appreciating and embracing diverse skill sets and temperaments. But the majority of the time, you want employees to utilize their best skills.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 11, 2020

Bob Johansen describes full-spectrum thinking as “the ability to seek patterns and clarity across gradients of possibility—outside, across, beyond, or maybe even without any boxes or categories—while resisting false certainty.”. Diversity will become more important even as it becomes more difficult to categorize.”.

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Joseph Lalonde

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Can we bring together neighborhoods which are diverse and have them begin attending church together? We don’t know the depths of the damage of resisting God. We’re more segregated in our churches than almost anywhere else. The segregation we see in our churches can be depressing. Put reconciliation back into the Gospel.

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Leading with Trust

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Diversity, Language & Miscommunication. Diversity is a wonderful thing, says Diana Peterson-More. Data abounds supporting the bottom-line and societal benefits of diverse groups whether as boards of directors, mock juries or product developers. We all know we need to take time away from work but we often resist.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2023

All too often, managers deny the existence of inequities at their organizations and, as a result, resist implementing diversity initiatives there. The authors explain this phenomenon and provide readers with some tactics for combatting it.

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HR Digest

JULY 29, 2023

These groups offer a platform for employees to connect, share ideas, and offer support, fostering a culture of inclusivity and diversity. Employees are also growing more resistant to change. Investing in resources to support these groups, and promoting a culture of inclusivity.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 28, 2013

The question before us all then is, are we willing to resist settling and risk pursuing excellence as our preferred way of being in the world? Here are five more thoughts from Brigadier General John Michel: Mediocrity is simply a choice we make every day. If so, then know this. Think differently about your potential in the world.

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Experience to Lead

MAY 30, 2023

This includes developing a vision for the future, communicating effectively with stakeholders, and managing resistance to change. Diversity, equity and inclusion: In order to build the most effective teams possible, executives must be able to lead in a diverse and inclusive environment.

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