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JANUARY 12, 2022 • VOL. 20 ISSUE 2 | | Hi John, New year, new you! Right? Or wrong? In our newest survey, we want to know: ARE YOU OKAY? How are things at work? Do you feel refreshed, engaged, supported and heard? Has your organization effectively responded to the events and challenges of the past two years? Is business healthy, or is it "business as usual"? Tell us about it. Your participation helps us highlight important workplace challenges and trends, and you can enter to win a $50 Amazon gift card. Our last gift card winners were Dawn S. and Sharon C. Thanks for your input! | | How do you get people to adopt a new policy or program? In today's Q&A, we offer four tips that leaders can use to influence their teams. And you can build on today's tips by attending an upcoming course in Influencer. Details below. |
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| | Four Change Management Tips Every Leader Can Use
| by Justin Hale |
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| Our company is launching a new program and my staff members are very negative about the change. How can I get them to adopt the change and cooperate? Signed, Early Adopter
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| | Here’s the hard truth: no matter how brilliant your new program might be, people can render it useless. What you have isn’t a leadership challenge, but a human challenge. To some degree, we all spend time trying to influence others to think and act differently than they do—coworkers, family members, children, neighbors, friends, and so on. Unfortunately, we often resort to compulsion, coercion, and charisma only to meet resistance. But if sixty years of social scientific study has any merit, true and lasting influence involves strategy. So, here are a few strategies that should help in your situation.
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| Join us live online and learn how to influence behavior and lead successful change initiatives. Named a Change Management Model of the Year by MIT Sloan Management Review, Influencer teaches a practical leadership model based on 50 years of social science research. | | |
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| | HOW TO BE HUMBLE AND CONFIDENT
| Facing a Crucial Conversation? Be confident enough to share your perspective and humble enough to know it's not the only perspective. Here's how.
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| | | HOW TO INSTANTLY MAKE YOUR MEETINGS MORE PRODUCTIVE
| You can quickly make meetings more effective by determining at the close who has the next action, who will follow up, and when. |
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| | | IN THE NEWS | THE VANTAGE POINTE: HOW DO YOU HAVE CRUCIAL CONVERSATIONS? | Four women discuss how they handle Crucial Conversations with children, peers, partners and more in this online talk show. | |
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| | | We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. | | | |
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