Overcome Resistance to Change: Closing the Trust Gap
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Lack of trust is one of the most insidious and difficult to resolve challenges in change management.
Despite the fact that individuals can, and will, verbalize their trust gap, they often triangulate, or share that perception with a third party, versus sharing their concerns with the second party, the target of their mistrust.
Consequently, many executives are oblivious to the brick walls they have inadvertently erected through poor communication, failure to engage individuals in the challenges being considered that drive the need for change or outright failure to deliver on promises. Open and rich communication channels build trust.
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Ashton Will honored at event for gifted children
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Ashton Will, one of the photographers for Valutivity LLC, was honored in the Mechanicsville Local, Vol. 27, No. 29, as “The Local Pick” for the November 17, 2010 issue. You may remember that his evocative photography was featured in the October blog item titled Thirst. The full text of that article is included here.
Nix the Naysayers, Cultivate the Critics
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They say “Everyone’s a critic.”
I don’t buy that. I think everyone's a naysayer. Good critics are few and far between.
But unfortunately, the Merriam-Webster Dictionary could not care less about my opinion.
Humilility Quotes Featured in New E-book "Wake Up and Shake it Up"
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Two of my quotes related to humility were included in a recent e-book developed by Achieved Strategies, titled Wake Up and Shake It Up. It's complimentary and available at their website; click the graphic on the right hand side; registration is required. Also, check out Derrick Strand's article, Tapping Into Precious Natural Resources.
Humbleness is an attractive trait in a leader, though it is often unrewarded or even rewarded punitively.
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Leaders: Are You Ripe Yet?
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As we end the month of August, I'm talking tomatoes.
Hanover County, Virginia, home of the Hanover Tomatoes, is where I have lived for years. It’s also the county where Valutivity LLC is chartered.
You probably see where I’m going with this. Leaders are a little like tomatoes: we’re not all “ripe” at one given time. But we are constantly striving to get closer to that ready stage at each point in our lives.
Abilene Christian Univ. Highlights Karen Smith-Will's Recent Gen-Y Research
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Valutivity LLC president and Lubbock Christian University student Karen Smith-Will's research efforts were highlighted in a Abilene Christian University press release on July 27, 2010. In partnership with Dr. Kathryn Crockett, Karen made an offer to attend Abilene's 2010 Leadership Summit as its research analyst. While data had been collected in a limited way in previous conferences, this was the first Summit that utilitzed pre- and post-summit surveys, a target audience of both attending students plus leaders and a collaboration with Lubbock Christian University. Karen utilitzed the Qualtrics™ Research Suite, in addition to other resources, to collect and analyze the data. A presentation was delivered at the Organizational Behavior Training Conference in June 2010.
Further details about the research are located in this Valutivity article.
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