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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I became interested in coaching when I realized that contemporary organizations face a challenge. The challenge is how to find a new way to not react to problems but instead be more proactive to find new solutions to old problems. This is all about understanding system thinking and organizational change. Observing Organizational Change I began…
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How does social change begin? In coaching we work with individuals, relationships or systems. With systems we think of relationships who are inter-connected, for instance in companies, organizations or institutions. From system theory we learn that one system impact another system. That means, when change happens in one system, that is going to impact related…
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One of the people that really have inspired me in terms of organizational learning is Peter Senge. He became known with his book the The Fifth Discipline, published in 1992. Here he lays the foundation for the notion of organizational learning.