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Chip Scholz
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Chip Scholz is Head Coach of Scholz and Associates, Inc. He is a nationally recognized executive coach, public speaker and author. He is a Certified Business Coach and works with CEO’s, business owners and sales professionals across North America.
Chip has written for a number of business and trade publications. 2009 saw the release of his first book project, “Masterminds Unleashed: Selling for Geniuses.” His second book, with co-authors Sue Nielsen and Tracy Lunquist, “Do Eagles Just Wing It?” was published in 2011. His next book "Clear Conduct" is due in 2013.Do Eagles Just Wing It?
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Masterminds Unleashed: Selling for Geniuses
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Tag Archives: organizational change
Leadership Clarity: Facing Fears and Uncertainty
How do leaders transform organizational fears and uncertainties into a spirited commitment for a better future? How to we get people to enthusiastically embrace a vision in spite of insecurities and fluctuating conditions?
Anthropologists and scientists identify five basic fears that are universal, each of which correlates with a basic need:
Fear
Correlated Need
Death (our own and our [...]
Leadership Talk: What’s not being said
Let’s get real about what leading people in organization is really like. Let’s be truthful and open about what goes on in the inner and upper offices… Political gamesmanship is here to stay. It’s a stable part of leadership practices.
Can we handle reality? Or are we like Jack Nicholson said in A Few Good Men: [...]
Changing Minds: How Honeybees Lead Teams
Have you ever observed yourself changing your mind about something? What makes you decide to reverse direction? It’s worth thinking about and finding out what triggers you, no?
The way you’ve experienced your own reversals can inform you about how others change their minds.
Here’s a story about honeybees I find fascinating. It’s from Stephen Denning’s book, [...]
The Real Reason Fear Won’t Motivate
There’s a danger in using fear to motivate people.
When you present a “burning platform” story to spur your people into action, there are inherent risks. People may jump into action, but will it be the right action? Will it be purposeful?
Most of the big problems we encounter in organizations or society are ambiguous and evolving. [...]
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Positive Illusions and the Need to Change
Before you can convince people to move in a new direction, they need to see themselves needing to change, they have to see that they need to improve.
That should be easy enough for leaders to do, except for one great big brain flaw: most people see themselves in a positive light. That would seem to [...]
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From Choice to Change
When we’re faced with too many choices, most of the time we’ll just go back to our original decisions or default behaviors. How many change efforts fail to take hold because people have too many options?
Too many decisions, and people will just go back to doing what they’ve always done.
Decision paralysis sets in. More options, [...]
The Snowball Effect: How to Start Change Now
In many ways, the first small steps you take to change your behavior are the most important. Once you initiate change, it seems to feed on itself, as two psychological triggers are at work:
1. The mere exposure effect: The more you’re exposed to something, the more you like it. Initially unwelcome change efforts will gradually [...]
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3 Ways Leaders Say More with Less