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What Should Coaches Be Listening For?

Strategy Driven

A coach's job is to facilitate potential change, usually by asking questions to identify the components of the problem and decide between solutions while reinforcing the changes and maintaining a trusting relationship. You just finished reading What Should Coaches Be Listening For? ! Assumptions. About the Author.

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Change management and sales: influencing the buying decision path

Strategy Driven

some sort of change management to ensure that the new and the old work together. helping folks who touch the current practices be willing and able to change. Bringing in something new into an existent system – whether it’s a purchase or an implementation – is a change management problem. About the Author.

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Resistance to Guidance: Why Sales, Coaching, and Leadership Practices Falter

Strategy Driven

Listening for Systems, Facilitating Change. For the past 30 years I have designed unique models that facilitate change from the inside. But whether you use my model or develop one of your own, you must begin by facilitating change, not by attempting to first ‘understand need’ or place a solution or idea. About the Author.

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Checklist for Influencers: questions for sellers, coaches, leaders, change agents

Strategy Driven

Most of you are really good at what you do: as influencers, sellers, coaches, change agents, or leaders, your intuition, excellent skills, and history of success guide your ability to facilitate change for your clients. I’ve trained it to 100,000 sales people, coaches, leaders, and negotiators globally.

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Leadership Self Examination | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

If you find that you lack skill sets and competencies in certain areas seek out mentors and coaches to shore-up your weaknesses, and more importantly, use your professional advisors to assist you in leveraging your strengths. On with the exam… Section I: Character.

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Why Pitching, Persuading, Guiding, and Influencing are Largely Unsuccessful – a thought paper for sellers, coaches, leaders, parents, and managers

Strategy Driven

Sales and marketing folks, managers, trainers, coaches, leaders – any profession that focuses on offering advice or promoting action – must stop trying to ‘pitch’ even if someone needs to hear it. Sharon Drew Morgen is a visionary, original thinker, and thought leader in change management and decision facilitation.

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A Round Up of My Writing in July 2010

QAspire

with Phil Gerbyshak Management Craft Nicholas Bate NOOP.NL (You can also visit monthly round ups of Jan 2010 , Feb 2010 , Mar 2010 , April 2010 , May 2010 and June 2010 ).