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Nov 25 2009

Contagious Leadership Tip #9– Working Through Resistance

Posted by: jhersey in Behavior, Coaching, Leadership, Motivation, Personal Leadership

Leaders are just as inclined to be resistant in certain areas and issues as anyone else. The difference is Contagious Leaders work through their resistance.

We can work through our resistance by:

  1. acknowledging the resistance in the first place
  2. calling it what it is, resistance to something we should be doing or working on
  3. stop avoiding it and work in the resistance, nothing else, just the resistance we are experiencing
  4. share our resistance with others
  5. journal about it, meditate on it or otherwise do whatever we have to do to begin calling it out
  6. change the story we have about that which we are resistant to. How do we do that? Simple, create a new one with a happier ending.

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One Response to “Contagious Leadership Tip #9– Working Through Resistance”
  1. Francesca says: November 29th, 2009 at 5:24 pm

    Nice summary on resistance to change and how to work through it. I recently read a book by Edwin Friedman that is a very intereting perpective on the challendges leaders face today. He looks at from a societal and family of origin perspective. THe title is A Failur of Nerve, Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix – Edwin Friedman.

    Thanks for your leaderhip posts they short, to the point and provide good insight into how to take responsibility and make a difference.

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