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99 Ways to Influence Change, #20: Remove obstacles
Often, some people in the organization are on board with the change and would like to modify their activities and …
99 Ways to Influence Change, #19: Make it viral
In today's attention-overload workplace, it is easy for your change message to be lost. With the advent of social …
99 Ways to Influence Change, #18: Admit mistakes
Mistakes happen during the course of organizational change:Â lack of communication, bad strategy, poorly aligned …
99 Ways to Influence Change, #17: Develop support systems
Many familiar programs designed to help individuals form better habits surround people with support systems. For …
99 Ways to Influence Change, #16: Demand compliance
Sometimes, if you want people to do something, you've got to use brute force. Enough with the buy-in and …
99 Ways to Influence Change, #15: Start conversations
Confusion and hesitancy about change occurs when the only conversations about change happen around the water cooler, or …
99 Ways to Influence Change, #14: Show you care
The best way I know to gain respect as a change agent is to show that you care about people personally. People are …
99 Ways to Influence Change, #13: Acknowledge fears
One of the key elements of resistance to change is fear. Fear can keep people from trying new things, stop people from …