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Do You Want To Pick Up Something New?

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Oftentimes people don’t want to pick up something new because it takes them out of their comfort zone. Once they understand why it is important to pick up something new and how to do it, they still might resist. They fear thingsthat they have not done before even when it appears and is easier than current practices. Once a person learns how to do something, they want to continue doing it that way and not change because it is comfortable.

Do You Want To Pick Up Something New?

Change Brings Fear

Change causes real fear for some people. It gives people ulcers, causes great anxiety, wakes people in the middle of the night, causes sleep apnea, and even causes people to get sick. There is actually a condition call metathesiophobia that is the fear of change. To people that take change with ease, this sounds crazy. However, it is a real condition that exists. People don’t like uncertainty in their life. They like to be in control of their life. This intense fear makes people want to do the same thing all the time with limited variation. [Read more…] about Do You Want To Pick Up Something New?

Help People Understand Change

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Have you ever recommended a change you felt was VERY important and valuable, but got rejected? Or, recommended a change that could dramatically improve your business or drastically improve the lives of others and people didn’t listen? So why did they not listen to you or implement the change? Did they not like you? Was your idea weird and too far out there for people to accept?

People Don’t Understand Change

In most cases it probably wasn’t a personality conflict, personal dislikes, or even that the idea was too far out. They probably declined your change request with no idea of the significant positive difference it would make.

Why People Don't Change - Reason #1

They probably didn’t understand change or what change meant. When it came down to it, they probably didn’t want the change because they lacked understanding.

Leaders often try to implement change without helping people understand what the change means. They don’t fully explain it enough for people to understand the change and accept it.

When people are asked to change without understanding, they often fight the change. They fear the change will hurt them, their standing with the company, or cause some other negative effect in their lives. [Read more…] about Help People Understand Change

I Voted, Did You? – Choose Your New Leader

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Each November, residents in the United States have the opportunity to vote on whom they want as their political leaders. This is a great opportunity to choose a new leader or confirm that you still want the existing leader. Even though the Leadership Done Right audience is growing to the point that the international audience is similar in size to the audience in the United States, there are important points to address as they relate to elections, voting, and choosing your leaders.

I Voted, Did You? – Choose Your New Leader

It is not uncommon to hear people say around election time that they don’t want to vote because their vote doesn’t count or they are insignificant. This is a bad attitude to have because of the following reasons:

1. Each vote counts towards the sum of the votes for each new leader or issue.

No one candidate is elected just by one vote, but they are elected by many votes. Your vote may only be one vote, but if you don’t vote you are giving your freedom to other people. You are allowing them to choose on your behalf. [Read more…] about I Voted, Did You? – Choose Your New Leader

5 Ways to Develop Leadership Skills

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5 Ways to Develop Your Leadership

A leader is a person who has the ability to attract and interact with their peers, influencing the minds of the people working with him/her. It is also important that a leader has the ability to motivate, manage, and evaluate a group or team, bewitching an end.

When the structure of a business grows, each leader must maintain a clear perspective for the company to operate under the values and goals that govern the company, so the desired effect is achieved.

To carry out this task that is not easy to get. It is important to develop leadership skills. There are certain characteristics to be developed by people who exercise leadership in an organization. Meet the principal: [Read more…] about 5 Ways to Develop Leadership Skills

How To Overcome Common Leadership Pitfalls

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Ali JafraThis is a guest post by Ali Jafra. Throughout his professional career Ali has been associated with globally recognized consulting firms, including PriceWaterHouse Coopers & Mercer consulting where he has undertaken a number of Business Process Reengineering (BPR) assignments, which has given him a diverse and unique perspective on Change Management. He has successfully managed relationships for blue chip companies, such as, Pepsi International, Microsoft, General Motors, Standard Chartered Bank, Polycom, Du Pont & Al Ghurair Group.

He has also worked as a Lead Project Manager for United Nations (UNDP) project to build capacity of Ministry of Economic Affairs Team in Pakistan to strengthen their online presence and virtual coordination for technology cooperation among developing countries.

In his passion to facilitate dissemination of knowledge with ease, he has moderated more than 100 Live Webinars on MILE’s platform by successfully engaging speakers from Top Academic Schools in the world and Global Consulting firms, such as Harvard, Columbia, Oxford, INSEAD, London Business School, Wharton, Babson, Yale, Standford, Carnegie, IESE, Cranfield, Oliver Wyman, Strategy&, United Nations Chief of E-government and many more.

Ali is a Certified Practitioner of Personality & Preference Inventory program (PAPI) which is a Psychometric tool developed by Cubiks an entity of PA Consulting U.K.

Ali holds a BSc. Degree from Elon University, North Carolina, USA.

How To Overcome Common Leadership Pitfalls

Every other organization tries to initiate a program that aims especially at developing leadership. These organizations spend huge amount of money and thousands of hours just to develop their leaders. However, the future leaders find it impossible to implement all of the inspiring leadership ideas and practices when they actually return to the workplace. Have they ever imagined why it is sometimes so difficult to put even the best leadership ideas into practice.

Following are some tips that would help such leaders to overcome most common leadership pitfalls. [Read more…] about How To Overcome Common Leadership Pitfalls

Slow Down and Lose or Speed Up and Win, You Choose

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Change is happening at a faster pace now than it ever has in the past. There are new technological advances everyday. There are also new studies everyday that teach us how to be more productive and do things more effectively. With all the advances, people have the choice to either slow down and lose or speed up and win.

Why do people slow down?

With the ever-increasing pace of change, some people fail to keep up. So what do they do? They just slow down. They decide that since they can’t keep up, they might as well slow down. Does this approach make sense?

Slow Down and Lose or Speed Up and Win, You ChooseWhen people slow down for change, there are many negative side effects. Three of those side effects are:

1. Slow Down = Get Further Behind

Rather than pick up the speed to keep up with change, people slow down so they can take everything in to handle it. As a result, they get more behind, and change becomes more difficult to manage. Additionally, they feel more frustration and anger. [Read more…] about Slow Down and Lose or Speed Up and Win, You Choose