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How to Face Resistance to Your Great Ideas

Leadership Freak

You can't lead if resistance from others defeats you. Every leader needs to learn how to overcome resistance. This post provides four actionable steps you can take to lower resistance and strengthen connection. Learn 12 questions you can use today.

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How to Lead When Your Team Resists Change

Let's Grow Leaders

When Your Team Resists Change, It’s an Opportunity for Ownership You’ve noticed a problem, spent the last four days meeting with finance, strategizing, and building an action plan. The post How to Lead When Your Team Resists Change appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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RESISTANCE TO CHANGE RECONSIDERED

Lead Change Blog

Change is a permanent feature of organizations; resistance is an expected part of the journey. Reasons for resistance vary, and may include: Loss of status from the change. Change resistance should be welcomed as an important source of data about how the plan is progressing. Job insecurity. Missed deadlines.

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How To Rearrange Your Brain for Success

Leading Blog

B RAD JACOBS, CEO and serial entrepreneur—United Rentals and XPO Logistics—has made and kept a few billion dollars and aims to show us how to do the same in How to Make a Few Billion Dollars. The most valuable part of the book for me was the first chapter on transforming how you use your mind.

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How to Approach Change-Resistant Groups

Change Starts Here

In my classes, I am occasionally asked what to do about change-resistant groups or organizations. The question usually seems defeatist, even though they are asking me for the secret sauce that will fix the situation.

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Speak-up Culture: How to Encourage More (and Better) Ideas

Let's Grow Leaders

How to Draw out Better Ideas from Every Member of Your Team. How to Include Your Reluctant Employees in Your Speak-Up Culture. Help your change resistors connect to a more meaningful “why” Your change resistors aren’t necessarily lazy, stuck, negative, or even “resistant.” resist the urge to answer immediately.

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Resistance to Change is Cooperation for Improvement

Mike Cardus

While working, you perceive change on a continuum from cooperation and learning — to resistance and a pain in the ass. . Change happens, and the cooperation/resistance is what you learn from and look for to co-construct what makes change work to improve the organization’s and your viability in the market. .

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