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The Fine Art of Dealing with Dominant People
Direct, decisive, determined, domineering. These are just some of the words that describe a highly dominant personality. Everyone knows one. You might even be one. Dominant people are the leaders, the pioneers, the risk-takers. Companies are run by them, wars are led by them, innovation follows in their wake. These are the people that we look to lead us where we might not otherwise go. If you are lucky, you will work for one. If you are really lucky, their office will be in another state. Yes, dominant people are the ones we love to hate, or at least hate to talk to (notice that I did not mention listening as a strong point). Get off on the wrong foot with one and your career can take an unwelcome sidetrack. Have them on your side and you have a strong champion. So how can you effectively communicate with such a power personality?
SUCCESSFUL CHANGE MANAGEMENT
Many companies throughout New Zealand are increasingly puzzled as to why there is such resistance to change in the workplace. I believe the answer is the fear that the ‘thought of change’ evokes in people. Change in itself denotes the act or process of substitution, alteration or variation, thereby making something different. For most people this act of difference is threatening because it changes the status quo. Most of us like continuity, sameness and order because it is what we have come to expect. It asks nothing of us other than to be present. With change comes a threat, our perception of output and efficiency is suddenly being questioned and this creates fear.
Attaining Engagement by Developing Individual Charisma
According to the 2007 – 2008 Global Workforce Survey by Towers Perrin (now Towers Watson), just one-fifth of employees surveyed were truly engaged in their work. Given the scale of this research that polled over 90,000 employees in 18 countries, this survey is a scandalous indictment of today’s callous and indifferent corporate culture.

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Resistance to Change and How to Deal With It
Sometimes the best planned change initiatives meet with resistance. Opposition to change can railroad a project, leading to much wasted resources, recriminations and exhaustion for all parties. What drives resisters and how can you turn them into supporters before your program goes off the rails? Find out the ways that people resist and some tips on what you can do about it.
“Got Resistance To Change? Then Get Strategic Thinking Business Coaching!”
We live in a rapidly changing world and individuals, businesses and other organizations are struggling to adapt to and keep up with that rapid change. And I believe it is fair to say that the attempts to adapt to change are not working or not working very well in many cases. Why is that? The major reason is resistance to adapting to change that basically lies within individuals. So, if this is the case, what can be done? How can we convert the energy being used in resisting and convert that energy to grab the opportunities that lie within change? One major response to the question of converting that energy is how we look at change. So, if you have resistance to change, what can a strategic thinking business coach advise you to do? Here are eleven (11) coaching tips to help you deal with resistance to change.

Resistance to Change Is a Fact of Life.
It has been astutely noted that the difference between a recession and a depression is this: in a recession, your next door neighbor loses his job, in a depression, you lose your job. Impersonal change is an abstract concept. We can't be adequately prepared for the future until we realize that the changes impacting others will almost certainly affect us as well. This article provides information on resistance to change and how to do a better job of coping with change.
3rd of the 10 Kurlan Sales Competencies that are Key to Building a Sales Culture
In this post I present the real #2, The Enemy is Resistance. I've written about this before too. The gist of Resistance is this: Selling would be far more simply for many more of your salespeople if they would focus on recognizing the resistance rather than attempting to overcome the many forms it takes:
4 Reasons Change is Difficult
Change is necessary if organizations want to continue to improve and grow, but change instantly raising resistance from some people. Change requires a certain amount of faith. Faith is much easier to believe, and even to preach, than it ever is to live by.
Change is a Fact of Life --- Six Keys That Make a Difference
Without change your company becomes stagnant, uncompetitive and boring. A leader's major responsibility is to create change, instigate change and then manage change effectively. In spite of the fact that creating change is a key competency required to be an effective leader, most people resist change. This includes leaders themselves. However, effective leaders accept change as a positive force and they are able to convince those that follow them that change is nothing more than a roadmap to a new and better destination. How do these leaders minimize that natural born resistance to change?

Resistance and Resilience Reflect Each Other
Resistance is what we experience when we’re getting ready to do something that goes beyond what we know, expect or find familiar. It’s the thing that makes us have bad hair days, get paper cuts, drop the coffee, run late or lose the phone when we’re about to make big change. The ironic thing about it is that resistance shows up even when we actually want the change to happen.

Growing with Change
Change happens. And while we can't control much of the world changing around us, we can control how we respond. We can choose to anticipate and embrace changes or resist them. Resisting change is like trying to push water upstream. Generally we're quick to point to others who resist change. It's much harder to recognize or admit to our own change resistance.
SUCCESSFUL CHANGE MANAGEMENT
Many companies throughout New Zealand are increasingly puzzled as to why there is such resistance to change in the workplace. I believe the answer is the fear that the ‘thought of change’ evokes in people. Change in itself denotes the act or process of substitution, alteration or variation, thereby making something different. For most people this act of difference is threatening because it changes the status quo. Most of us like continuity, sameness and order because it is what we have come to expect. It asks nothing of us other than to be present. With change comes a threat, our perception of output and efficiency is suddenly being questioned and this creates fear.
Change Management: Getting People Excited About Change
Because of this scary world, people are resistant to change. Communicate differently and you can reduce resistance and get people excited about change.

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