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Resistance and Change – A Personal Experience | Aspire-CS

Persuasive Powerhouse

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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Servant Leadership Observer ? November 2010

Modern Servant Leader

The Modern Servant Leader Servant Leadership & Technology. September 20, 2011 Servant Leadership. Servant Leadership Intro. Servant Leader Posts. If You Seek Prestige, Please Don’t Try To Lead… Servant Leadership Profile: Lionel Logue. Why Servant Leadership is the Future.

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5 Ways to Lead with Empathy

Leading with Trust

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. When leaders do this, their people know they care about them. Be Compassionate.

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7 Ways to Enjoy Others at Work

Persuasive Powerhouse

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. It relieves stress and allows us to be more open to others. What are you pushing uphill against?

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Questioning Questions

Strategy Driven

They encourage resistance, partial/missed answers, and lies. These questions restrict possibility, cause resistance, create distrust, and encourage lying. Doubt Directive These questions, sometimes called ‘leading questions’ are designed to cause Responders to doubt their own effectiveness, in order to create an opening for the Asker.

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Thought-full Thursday: Starting From What Is

Persuasive Powerhouse

The practice of being with the way things are allows us to alight in a place of openness, where “the truth” readies us for the next step, and the sky opens up.” From The Art of Possibility by Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander. As you consider what you must communicate, can you begin with what is, even when it is unpleasant?

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Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Unbreakable

Joseph Lalonde

Glass, the movie weaves together elements of comic books into the movie world. This caused David to ponder the meaning of his ability to resist sickness and injury. All he had to do to get the gift was to leave the house, cross the street, and open the present. Inside was a glorious comic book he could read.