Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

A Receptivity to Change Scale. Ellen R. Auster and Trish Ruebottom created a scale that categorizes individuals in an organization according to their receptivity to change initiatives : Sponsors, promoters, indifferent fence-sitters, cautious fence-sitters, positive skeptics, and negative skeptics. One of the values of this scale is that it provides a framework from which to categorize each stakeholder per his/her potential receptivity or reluctance to a specific change initiative.

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Sports Long-term Quality Goal 210

Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

T OM ASACKER always makes you think. Life is not scripted but we live it as though it were. In doing so, we create boxes that we operate within without ever really seeing the possibilities. “We’re confined in mental prisons of our own creation.” We make these scripts up or others make them up for us and eventually we come to believe them. And the problem is we think that is reality.

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Uncertainty Open-book Creativity Influence 184

Rich Gee Group

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Some people love to give presentations. Some people hate it. Most people fall somewhere in between these two points on the presentation spectrum. What do want to most from your presentation? A decision? Enthusiasm for a idea? A sale? A way to present bad numbers so they look good? I’ve given thousands of presentations — from a small status update for my division, or an 850+ audience at The Hartford Insurance Company, all the way to major sales presentations to McDonald’s and Home Dep

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Audience Hammer Insurance Information 170

Women on Business

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

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Marketing Content 184

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Joseph Lalonde

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Grow Your Team The longer someone is on your team, the more they should grow. Reality has shown us this often isn’t the case. Someone takes the position, and then they stop growing. Whether that’s because they feel they’ve made it or they don’t know where else to go, things need to change. And there’s good news. You can help your team develop.

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Development Team Library Learning-by-Doing 144

Leadership Freak

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Interventions come in the form of an irritating other. It’s not that people are irritating in and of themselves. Well, to be honest, some are. They’re irritating when they call us to surrender.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership 151

leaderCommunicator

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Welcome to my weekly round-up of recent top leadership and communication blog posts. As many of you know, each week I read and tweet several great articles and on Fridays, I pull some of my favorites together here on my blog.

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Blog Company Article Leadership 109

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

If you’ve recently started a business, I’m sure you’re quickly discovering just how much goes into making it a success. Your big idea is just the start of it. From there, you need to think about your HR, marketing, IT infrastructure and a whole host of other factors. With so much going on, it’s essential to make sure you don’t neglect anything important.

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Handbook CRM Policies Insurance 73

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Each January brings a renewed desire to challenge ourselves and learn something new. But by February the energy starts to wane. Becoming proficient at something takes too much time, we lose motivation to practice, we struggle to pay attention in class after a long day at work — the list of reasons goes on. I recently came across some motivation to stick with a new pursuit.

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Survey Report Incentives Sports 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Eric is, by all means, a very successful entrepreneur. His technology company has grown considerably in the past five years. He’s raised two rounds of funding, has a customer base in the thousands, and is managing a team of eight employees. Although admired by fellow entrepreneurs, Eric harbors a dark secret: He goes home every night feeling extremely exhausted and unhappy.

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Entrepreneur Stress Self-aware Uncertainty 11

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

In light of Snap’s IPO , there has been an immense amount of speculation about the long-term viability of the company’s strategy. Two elements of it have caught some attention: Snap’s statement that it is a “camera company,” and its intention to reinvest its revenues in developing new products that will take significant time and expense, but which it believes it can develop faster than competitors.

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IPO Productivity Products Strategy 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

The unpredictability of our current political environment, in the U.S. and around the globe, has drawn company leaders into a maelstrom. CEOs don’t know whether a presidential tweet will bring their company into the limelight, or whether a controversial policy will pressure them to speak out. For example, there was anxiety among CEOs about how to respond to President Trump’s recent executive order restricting immigration.

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