Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Using resistance to lead effectively. If you truly understand resistance, you seldom need to deal with it: You manage its cause before it even manifests itself! Understanding resistance. The leader understands the source of resistance and deals with it adequately. In such a case their resistance is a way to maintain their self-esteem. There is a tendency in all nature to resist change. Dealing with resistance. You should rather expect resistance.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Posted in Change Management Is resistance to change truly irrational? Change Management Change lead change Management resistance worldview Many times, people being impacted by an organizational change initiative are called “irrational” or even worse by those leading the effort. However, even someone who is clinically insane is behaving rationally within their worldview. To themselves, people do not behave irrationally though they may be viewed that way by [.]

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Aspire-CS

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

. Dictionaries provide strong synonyms for the word “resistance”: defiance, opposition, fight and conflict to name a few. It’s important for you to notice subtle resistance and become aware of passive behaviors in those you lead that signal that they aren’t on board.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 19, 2014

Change Management Change influence lead change persist resistance Great opportunities lie on the other side of the status quo. We’ve all heard lines like, “We’ve never done it that way;” or “We tried that back in 1975…” or “That won’t work.”

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

JULY 27, 2015

People don’t resist change. What people resist is having change imposed on them. Here are three guidelines that invite people to participate in the change process and minimize resistance to change. → Read More: 3 Guidelines that Help Avoid Resistance to Change.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 27, 2013

Posted in Leadership Development Self Leadership I recently wrote a post titled 5 Ideas To Direct Your Best Energy Toward Your Greatest Purpose. We need to mobilize leaders. Personally, I want to hate my laziness, television, surfing, and anything keeping me from impact.

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 10, 2019

What we resist is being changed — especially focused on our mistakes and weaknesses. And it’s a major cause of resistance to change. Resistance to change that she encountered was much lower. Is your change leadership raising or lowering resistance?

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Joseph Lalonde

APRIL 15, 2016

The Real Reasons We Resist Change. How To Become Less Resistant To Change. So, how can we overcome our resistance to change? Overcoming our resistance to change only comes when we’re willing to take charge of our thoughts.

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Leadership Freak

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Resistance is the point… Continue reading → CoachingThere are a million reasons to stay the same, when you feel pressure to change. In my opinion change is great as long as someone else is doing it.

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Kevin Eikenberry

JULY 7, 2014

Resistance is naturally occurring and not necessarily all bad. Watch the short video below for 3 steps to overcoming resistance to change. Think about it – wouldn’t you rather have someone be resistant to your change idea than to be apathetic?

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

It all operates effortlessly until we attempt to drive a behavior that runs counter to our beliefs – and then we get resistance as our system attempts to maintain balance. [I’ve This is why people and teams won’t execute good decisions, users don’t use new software, and why implementations fail: we are ignoring our accepted practice and pushing unapproved behaviors into a system that must resist to maintain it’s status quo and balance.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 19, 2011

Best of Blogs Series Change Management Change lead change leader resistanceRecently I gave a presentation titled, “5 Simple Steps to Engage Even Your Most Skeptical Employees In Change, So You Can Create a Strong Foundation for a Positive and Developmental Work Culture&# As I went through it, I myself was struck again by the necessity to understand and consider human nature when we are trying [.].

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Leadership Freak

JUNE 19, 2018

Resistance to change is futile in growing organizations. 10 sources of resistance to change:… Continue reading → LeadingChange will happen eventually. If change doesn’t happen, organizations die. Change indicates life. Death is the absence of change.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 29, 2013

Posted in Leadership Development Do you get distracted? Everyone does. You do. Distractions are everywhere. Social media has made distractions the norm. Distraction. Distraction. Distraction. Distraction. Distraction. Now go home and help yourself to some more distractions.

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Aspire-CS

APRIL 15, 2013

You might notice a little or a lot of it every day; resistance is all around you, and most prevalent when your organization is in some kind of transition (almost all the time). You may be the key to busting open the wall of resistance. All leaders face resistance.

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Kevin Eikenberry

JULY 7, 2014

Resistance is naturally occurring and not necessarily all bad. Watch the short video below for 3 steps to overcoming resistance to change. Think about it – wouldn’t you rather have someone be resistant to your change idea than to be apathetic?

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 22, 2018

No matter how brilliantly researched, planned, and executed, you will meet resistance to change. It might seem somewhat off-putting, that around 75% of your workforce might resist change in some shape or form. However, help is at hand, as I’ll set out in two posts over May and June twelve ways to reduce resistance to change, all tried and tested personally. The post 12 Ways to Reduce Resistance to Change – Part 1 appeared first on Lead Change.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

People HATE change. They loathe and despise it. They see it, abhor it and team up to fight it. Mind you, not all people, all the time. But certainly most people, much of the time. People rebuke change. People will mock change. … Continue reading → Lead Change Group - Leaders Growing Leaders. Leadership Development Change courage engagement vision

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Leadership Freak

JULY 28, 2015

The line between bold and foolish is often determined by success or failure. Fearful organizations are full of people who know why it’s better to stay the same. Remarkable success requires boldness, but bold leaders… Continue reading → Conflict resolution Courage Criticism Failure Fear Insecurity Passion Conflict Resolution courageous leaders Decisions Leadership Development organizational success

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 22, 2018

No matter how brilliantly researched, planned, and executed, you will meet resistance to change. In May’s post , I set out the first six of my suggested twelve ways to reduce or reframe resistance to change. Always take a positive view on resistance and seek to reduce it rather than eliminate it. I believe that change and resistance to change inevitably go hand-in-glove. The post 12 Ways to Reduce Resistance to Change – Part 2 appeared first on Lead Change.

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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

Because we’re deluded! We all delude ourselves about our achievements, our status, and our contributions.

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Leadership Freak

AUGUST 27, 2014

One of my embarrassing leadership blunders was allowing passion and vision to blind me to the interests of others. You either agreed with me or you were a roadblock. My strategy was to… Continue reading → Humility Influence Motivation Taking others higher Leadership Leadership Development

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Leadership Freak

JULY 10, 2016

Underhanded resistance happens when people say yes, but really mean no. Resistance is expected, normal, even healthy. Underhanded resistance distracts and destroys. Leaders chase ghosts, when they don’t see underhanded resistance. Most people say they want… Continue reading → Change Leadership Development organizational success

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Change Starts Here

APRIL 26, 2017

Resistance is becoming a bad word in change management circles lately. Some thought leaders are recommending that we stop focusing on reducing resistance, and focus on developing Readiness instead. To focus on resistance is to focus on the negative.

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Joseph Lalonde

SEPTEMBER 6, 2014

But when you look deeper, it shows an incredibly creative God who turns resistance into an opportunity. But God had a creative solution to what seemed like an impossible amount of resistance. Gideon took this resistance and turned it into an opportunity.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 16, 2016

Consequently, attempts to change established policies, processes, or practices will meet with a degree of cultural resistance. The post Corporate Cultures – Overcoming Cultural Resistance to Change appeared first on StrategyDriven.

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Engaging Leader

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

How do great leaders overcome resistance to change ? In […] How do great leaders overcome resistance to change ? and the stress that accompanies it? Navigating change is hard, and people often get emotionally hijacked in the process.

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Change Starts Here

AUGUST 8, 2017

When someone seems to be resisting change, consider the following 50 reasons that might […]. Despite our best efforts to influence change, people often don’t transition as easily as we expect them to. Instead of becoming frustrated, try to understand the reason for their response.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 30, 2017

Resisting change is normal. Once you discover how significant change is in our lives is every day (and how an understanding of change can make you happier), we still resist change to some degree. Perhaps up to 90% of the American people do not have a clue about change. Whether the change is positive or negative, we know some pain is coming, and it is only natural that we try to avoid it. What we can do is influence our reactions to the emotions that all change will cause.

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Change Starts Here

MAY 7, 2015

When we try to influence people to change, we’re likely to encounter someone exhibiting behaviors that make it seem as though they are resisting change, whether it’s outright refusal to participate or something more subtle like procrastination or avoidance. Resistance acts the same way.

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Change Starts Here

JANUARY 23, 2019

The dictionary definition of Resistance is: Any force that slows down or prevents motion. Resistance is a scientific term that stems from Newton’s laws of motion. Resistance plays a crucial part in […].

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Change Starts Here

APRIL 8, 2015

The dictionary definition of resistance is: Any force that slows down or prevents motion. So, naturally we define resistance to change as any force that slows down or prevents change. We most associate resistance with the person who pushes back and refuses to change.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 10, 2019

Episode 34 – Making Change Work: The Problems of Change Management: Bias, Resistance, and Push explores the problems associated with change management, namely, that of bias, resistance, and push. what leaders should be doing differently to avoid resistance to change.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2019

Episode 35 – Making Change Work: If Decisions Are Always Rational, Why Are Changees Resisting? what causes resistance to logical change. what benefits can be gained from resistance. how resistance can be avoided when making a change.

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Leadership Freak

JULY 11, 2016

The danger of underhanded resistance is you don’t see it coming. Skillful leaders know polite foot dragging, agreement without follow through, and recurring “confusion” are underhanded resistance. Malicious or innocent: Underhanded resistance is always malicious, even when it smiles. It may be motivated by insecurities or disagreement, but it has one objective. Keep things the … … Continue reading → Power Leadership Development organizational success

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Leadership Freak

AUGUST 6, 2012

Resist the [.]. Peter Jenson, Ph.D., author, coach, and Olympic sports psychology consultant, said many things during our conversation but one most gripped me. “I I let them stew in their failure for a while.” Peter Jenson Ph.D. A team Jenson worked with suffered a disappointing loss. He let them sleep on it. I’ve been mulling over Jenson’s strategy.

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Leadership Freak

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Great feedback often surprises recipients. They don’t see themselves clearly. Frankly, none of us do. Your feedback was rejected. Now what? Gut check: If we open our hearts at all, it’s to people… Continue reading → Feedback

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Tony Mayo

APRIL 29, 2011

For Executives Quotes and Aphorisms ResistanceIf you’ve done any white water rafting, you know how exciting it can be. On the first rapid of my first trip I remember the guide yelling, “Row. Row fast!!!&# I didn’t want to go fast. I wanted to slow down, to take the rapid nice and easy. I’ve since learned that if you [.].

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Strategy Driven

MAY 6, 2015

The problem is resistance. Because of the law of homeostasis (simply, all systems seek stability) any change potentially disrupts the status quo and will be resisted, even if the ‘new’ is more effective; even if the system seeks the change; even if the persuader is skilled at persuasion tactics. You just finished reading Resistance to Guidance: Why Sales, Coaching, and Leadership Practices Falter !

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Change Starts Here

OCTOBER 29, 2018

A few years ago, I spoke at the Georgia State University TEDx event on the topic of “How to Deal With Resistance to Change.” Confession: I broke the #1 rule of the internet. That’s right, I read the comments.

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Change Starts Here

JUNE 30, 2015

That’s the opening line of my recent TEDx GeorgiaStateU talk on the topic of “How to Deal With Resistance to Change.” Do you ever feel like you have to drag people through the mud by their hair to get them to change?

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 14, 2012

“It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.” Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor… You just finished reading Leadership Inspirations - Resistance !

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Change Starts Here

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Organizations with cultures that enable change are Change-Ready, while those that work against it are Change-Resistant. There are elements of an organization's culture that will either help or hinder change, regardless of the change you're trying to implement.

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