Dr Mike Clayton
Hi, I'm Mike Clayton. Thank you for visiting my website.
I am a business speaker, and I write books about the kind of personal and business skills I have needed throughout my career. I have spent the last twenty years studying and learning this stuff and nothing gives me more pleasure than sharing it.
You will find a lot of my writing on this website too - in my blog and in some of the materials you can download from the Resources pages. I hope you enjoy it and will want to contact me.
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Handling Resistance Blog
The Power of Questions: Seven Tips
Changing my mind is difficult for you to do. But I do it all of the time. So one of the most powerful ways for you to change my mind is to ask me questions. When I answer them, you … Continue reading
Posted in Brilliant Influence, Handling Resistance
Tagged influence, persuasion, qusetions, resistance
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Creating the Onion Model
The Onion Model of Resistance is a model I developed initially to describe resistance to change. I subsequently generalised it to cover handling: resistance to ideas in a presentation sales objections resistance in a learning environment resistance to engagement Full … Continue reading
Posted in Handling Resistance, Management Models
Tagged Change management, Handling Resistance, Onion Model, resistance
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Creating the Onion Model Part 2
Yesterday, I posted the first part of an article published in the September 2011 issue of Training Journal. I describe how I developed the Onion Model that is at the centre of The Handling Resistance Pocketbook. Here is Part 2 … Continue reading
Creating the Onion Model
In the September 2011 issue of Training Journal, I describe how I developed the Onion Model that is at the centre of The Handling Resistance Pocketbook. Here is that article. Models are the way that human beings understand our world, … Continue reading
13 Forms of Resistance to Handle
Seth Godin’s tremendous blog is guaranteed to make you think more often than not. And he manages to put out one a day, seven days a week: wow! Yesterday, he posted “The warning signs of defending the status quo” He … Continue reading
Handling Resistance to Engagement
This month’s edition of Training Journal focuses on the topic of “engagement”, with seven feature articles dedicated to the topic. I really like what the new editor, Elizabeth Eyre, has done in theming each issue. The quality of the articles these … Continue reading
Resistance to Engagement Part 2
In yesterday’s post, Part 1, we started looking at resistance to engagement, by looking at the basics of the onion model and then peeling the first layer: “I don’t understand why you want me to engage with you.” In this … Continue reading
Resistance to Engagement Part 1
People want to be engaged. They want to be treated fairly, to be consulted about what is happening, and to feel valued and supported. Yet employee engagement initiatives often meet with scepticism, resistance and even hostility. Why is this? Can … Continue reading
Posted in Engagement, Handling Resistance
Tagged employee engagement, Onion Model, resistance, resistance to engagement
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Handling Resistance to Engagement
This month’s edition of Training Journal is focused on the topic of “engagement”, seven feature articles dedicated to the topic. I was honoured to be asked by the editor, Elizabeth Eyre, to contribute. My article “Resistance to Engagement” builds on the … Continue reading
How to Understand Resistance and Handle it Effectively
Mike’s first law of change: “Resistance is inevitable” There’s no getting around it, so all you can do is to embrace it, and engage with your resisters. But how can you do so positively, and increase your chances of a … Continue reading
Posted in Handling Resistance, Speaking, Tips, Tools
Tagged change, Change management, CIPD HRD, Handling Resistance, Mike Clayton, organisational change, Respect, The Golden Rule
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