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Consult-and-Decide and Build-Consensus for Making Decisions

How do you make more effective decisions?  As a leader, how do you know whether to build consensus or to simply make the decision based on input?  In The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels, Michael Watkins writes about effective decision making using consult-and-decide and build-consensus techniques. Key Take …

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Become a Better Influencer

Become a Better Influencer: Identify Supporters, Opponents and Convincibles

“Influence may be the highest level of human skills.” – Unknown Part of putting your ideas in place, means knowing the influence map. You need to know your supporters and opponents as well as those that you can convince to join your efforts. How do you identify your supporters, opponents and convincibles? In The First …

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Assessing Your Existing Team

Assessing Your Existing Team

What are the most important attributes of the people on your team? Which attributes can you influence or change versus which are relatively fixed? What is your threshold value for whether somebody should be on your team? In The First 90 Days: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter, Michael Watkins writes …

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Overcome Resistance with Entanglement Strategies

How To Overcome Resistance with Entanglement Strategies

“It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.” ? Leonardo da Vinci How do you overcome resistance to change in your organization? You can move people in a series of small steps. Incremental buy-in over time can often be more effective than trying to change too much at once, particularly if …

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Coalition-Building Cycle

How To Build a Coalition of the Willing

“You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into.” — Ben Goldacre You can build a better coalition with skill if you know the Coalition-Building Cycle. The Coalition-Building Cycle is the key to building a support network and it helps you build momentum with your support network. In The …

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