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Edgar Schein on Dialogue #teams #coaching

Management Craft

I love this quote from an Edgar Schein (father of modern org culture theory and practice) piece from 1993 called, On Dialogue, Culture, and Organizational Learning from Organizational Dynamics , 22 (2), 40-51. If you manage or train teams or managers of teams, check it out. It is a great piece.

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Leadership Lessons On Listening, Questioning, And Moving Others To Act

Tanveer Naseer

Communicating effectively, becoming a more accomplished persuader, and helping others achieve their performance goals have long been foundational managerial roles. Schein and Daniel H. Schein, is a testament to the importance of asking questions in a way that enables others to feel comfortable giving honest answers.

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Resistance to Change is Cooperation for Improvement

Mike Cardus

This discomfort is Learning Anxiety.” – Schein pp. Formal Training. If you are to learn new ways of thinking, new attitudes, and new skills, you must have access to whatever formal training is required. If formal training is to take hold, you must understand that you can manage your informal learning methods.

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Use how each person and the team responds as a chance to make the learning even easier :: Resistance to Change

Mike Cardus

Edgar Schein. This may mean adjusting the training for skills needed in the change , taking a multi-point approach. In our next meeting I asked, Who has some goals they would like to share that are in the QQT/R method? … 8 shared 3 goals each and the other 4 listened. Photo Credit. What do you think?

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Instead of Making People More Anxious. Make the Learning Easier :: Resistance to Change

Mike Cardus

Edgar Schein. She stated, “They always do this and we are going to have to prove that this is NOT going away and they will complete this training!” You have the Goal Setting & Time Span content and field assignment. Photo Credit. This disconfirmation can be enough to trigger a need to change. They all agreed.

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Employee Relationships is a Serious Employer Responsibility

HR Digest

As such it is concerned with how to gain people’s commitment to the achievement of an organization’s business goals and objectives in a number of different situations.” Concurrently, 95 percent of employees who received conflict management training stated that they were better able to resolve workplace complications effectively.

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4 Conditions for Improved Team Work

Mike Cardus

Will my goals / needs be met by this team? Goals drive everything we do as individuals and teams. People have individual needs and goals they wish to have fulfilled. The above questions are from Edgar Schein, Helping. The comments in italics are my additional thoughts on the questions. What do you think?

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