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Workplace and Life Advice You Can Use

Leading Blog

T HIRTY-NINE LEADERS were interviewed on subjects related to leadership and were assembled by Roger Dean Duncan into LeaderSHOP Volume 1: Workplace, Career, and Life Advice from Today’s Top Thought Leaders (not to be confused with the LeaderShop ). Schein : “The warning signs are never ‘cultural.’

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New Module! The Art of Helping by Edgar Schein

Coaching Ourselves

We are very excited to present this brand new module by CoachingOurselves’ author Edgar Schein! Helping is not about what you think would be good for the other person and not necessarily the advice that you want to give to them, but figuring out what is really needed and supplying that. Fireside chat w. The post New Module!

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Resistance to Change. Fear of Temporary Incompetence

Mike Cardus

This is when I understood ‘ psychological inertia ’ – comfort and stuckness in thinking AND what Schein meant in Stage 1 of change Becoming Motivated to Change when people show denial; scapegoating; maneuvering and bargaining. Edgar Schein. An area of change we fear. Fear of temporary incompetence. How to work with this?

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While you may know the best solution…it’s no good if the person rejects it.

Mike Cardus

It is not my job to take the client’s problems onto my own shoulders, nor is it my job to offer advice and solutions in a situation that I do not live in myself. Edgar Schein. My job is to create a relationship in which the client can get help. It makes the other person feel vulnerable and makes you feel bigger.

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Photo Inquiry Friday: Your job is to create a relationship in which the client can get the help they need.

Mike Cardus

It is not my job to take the client’s problems onto my own shoulders, nor is it my job to offer advice and solutions in a situation that I do not live in myself. Edgar Schein. My job is to create a relationship in which the client can get help. We are all in service positions. How would you know?

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Ask, Learn, Follow Up and Grow

Marshall Goldsmith

As Edgar Schein notes in this volume, leaders will need to effectively involve others and elicit participation “because tasks will be too complex and information too widely distributed for leaders to solve problems on their own.” ” The challenge is not in understanding this advice, but in doing it.

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