Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.

REACH to Rewire your Brain

REACH to Rewire your Brain
Choosing a growth mindset means you continue to learn new knowledge, skills, and behaviors. You can improve your brain’s ability to do your current job and prepare your brain for your next role.

Your Circle of Control, Your Behavior Drives Results - coach4growth.com

Your Circle of Control, Your Behavior Drives Results - coach4growth.com
You can break the cycle of hopelessness and the feeling of lack of control by focusing on your behaviors and activities within your circle of control.  When we say that your behavior drives results and is the only thing you own, we mean that you own your choices, responses, attitude, implementation of learning, and so on.  So, what do these behaviors look like?  

The 20-Minute Exercise To Eradicate Negative Thinking

The 20-Minute Exercise To Eradicate Negative Thinking
Belief is contagious. It wins supporters. It’s self-fulfilling. As Harvard professor Rosebeth Moss Kanter shows in her book Confidence, the belief you can win creates momentum which improves your chances of winning.

Surprised by resistance to a desirable change

Surprised by resistance to a desirable change
Prosci defines change management as the application of a structured process and set of tools for managing the people side of change to reach a desired outcome. But how often do we see change management and resistance management used synonymously? If your answer is “quite often” then you are not alone. While Prosci emphasizes that change management is composed of many tools, strategies and techniques for managing the people side of change, one of the primary plans developed through the Prosci® 3-Phase Change Management Methodology is a resistance management plan. Because the reality is that resistance will be faced during any effort in which people must change something about the way they do work.

The Change Samurai Pty Ltd

The Change Samurai Pty Ltd
Influence is one of the most important competencies of leaders in the twenty-first century. How well a leader can influence is crucial to that leader's effectiveness as well as his or her organization's success.

imPOSSIBLE is two letters too long!

Are You Properly Addressing the Really Sticky Issues? | Conner Partners

Are You Properly Addressing the Really Sticky Issues? | Conner Partners
As professional change facilitators, we take on many roles when performing our duties: SME, educator, counselor, philosopher, etc. In my opinion, one that is among the most important in our profession, but not used nearly as much as it should be, is the role of provocateur. Unlike an “agitator” who intentionally stirs up trouble or a “pacifier” who seeks tranquility at all cost, the provocateur (as I’m using the term) focuses on helping clients recognize, acknowledge, and take action on the various “sticky issues” that inevitably arise when the status qwasuo is disrupted significantly.

Three avenues for resistance management

Three avenues for resistance management
Prosci defines change management as the application of a structured process and set of tools for managing the people side of change to reach a desired outcome. But how often do we see change management and resistance management used synonymously? If your answer is “quite often” then you are not alone. While Prosci emphasizes that change management is composed of many tools, strategies and techniques for managing the people side of change, one of the primary plans developed through Prosci’s 3-Phase Change Management Methodology is a resistance management plan. Because the reality is that resistance will be faced during any effort in which people must change something about the way they do work.

The Diffusion Game: Test your change management skills

The Diffusion Game: Test your change management skills
The Diffusion Simulation Game is a game developed by Indiana University in which players explore strategies that result in the adoption of innovation in a fictitious junior high. The goal is to get stakeholders (the school principal, teachers, and support staff) to adopt peer tutoring. As a player, you can decide whether to gather information, talk to people, visit places, or ask for help as various prompts are presented.

Ingredients of change - Blog - Kite Consultants

Ingredients of change - Blog - Kite Consultants
The probability that people change their behaviour depends on 3 factors 1) the level to which they understand that they must change 2) the level to which they want to change and 3) the level to which they can change, in other words:  MUST*WANT*CAN or Drive*Motivation*Ability. These 3 factors hold the ingredients to make individual, lasting, behavioural change in organizations happen.

A bad attitude is like a flat tyre, you can't move forward till you change it!

5 Most Effective Ways to Sell Change - Forbes

5 Most Effective Ways to Sell Change - Forbes
Change can scare a lot of people, but in today’s workplace – managing change is what keeps people relevant.    Being held accountable for managing change and making things better in your work is the new normal. 

Personal Change Management

Personal Change Management

As a leader, you have to be able to manage yourself through change while you’re helping others.  As an executive, you need to be able to initiate and control the personal change it takes to accomplish your personal and career goals.

The very fact that so many failures have turned into success implies that failures are not wrong.

Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

We will continue to experience what we tolerate. Have courage, make change.