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Influence
How to Influence Change Without Authority
Relative to the people who need to change the way they work, those who are trying to implement that change often are not …
Interview: Grumblers to Allies – Gain Support for Change With The Energy Bar™
Rick Maurer, author of Beyond the Wall of Resistance, returns to the show to discuss how to gain support for change, …
How to Get Teams to Discuss Undiscussible Topics
In the last post, Five Signs Your Team is Avoiding the Truth (Or Other Uncomfortable Topics), I shared some of the ways …
Five Signs Your Team is Avoiding the Truth (or Other Uncomfortable Topics)
Implementing change at work requires facing the truth and discussing uncomfortable topics. For example, you might have …
Five Ways to Equip People to Change
As change agents at work, we spend much of our effort on motivating people to change. However, even if someone is …
Six Underlying Reasons for Resistance
When we try to influence people to change, we’re likely to encounter someone exhibiting behaviors that make it seem as …
Three Ways We Make Resistance More Frustrating Than It Really Is
Recently, I posted Eight Telltale Signs of Resistance, in which I described some of the resistant behaviors people use …
Eight Telltale Signs of Resistance
The dictionary definition of resistance is: Any force that slows down or prevents motion. So, naturally we define …