What is the characteristics of a great leader? What leadership styles can we find in some of our favorite leaders? Just notice that this picture just indicates men and no woman. As I was writing this for educational purpose, it’s valid to hear claim who I think are GREAT female leaders: Operah Winfrey, Marianne Williamson……
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For the last few weeks I’ve been talking about change. Today is about what we can learn from theoretical tools for change that are developed from previous studies of organizational change. Change Process Kotter (1995) made a study of over 100 companies in various industries and their approach to create change processes. He claimed that its important…
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In the previous blog post I talked about conceptual skills. Here I’m going to talk about the technical skills required for change. Consider this as a specialized knowledge, analytical ability and the capacity to use tools and techniques. Coaching can also be seen as a specific technical skills set. When creating change it can, according to…
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This week we are going to take a look at how conceptual skills are necessary for the process of organizational change. One of my friends has a background as an entrepreneur and business person. At just 20 years old he achieved his first seven figure income. He went on to take his company to the…
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If you are working as a change agent you need to have certain skills to be able to determine the best path toward change. Katz (1974) categorizes all of these skills into the three-skills approach. From this perspective, leadership is a skill that is developed. Leadership Needed for Change During my coaching years I’ve learned that many…
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