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Preview Thursday – Humble Leadership

Lead Change Blog

The following is an excerpt from Humble Leadership:The Power of Relationships, Openness and Trust by Ed & Peter Schein. Schein is the author of numerous bestselling books, including the recent Humble Inquiry and Humble Consulting. Edgar Schein is renowned as the father of organizational cultural studies.

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

Tanveer Naseer

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. In Schein’s view, there are two essential problems. Pink being the standouts. The first is our preference for telling rather than asking.

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Excellent Interpersonal Communication Requires a Safe Environment

Lead Change Blog

In a previous post , I posited the seven things you should do for excellent interpersonal communication: create safety, ensure feedback loops are in place, encourage trust in others’ competence, implement stepped decision-making, involve bottom-up, use transformational leadership, and match stated and actual organizational culture.

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3 Stages of Change. Unfreezing; Movement; Re-Freezing

Mike Cardus

Edgar Schein. Having an understanding of how this change takes place, the steps that people go through and the systems-that-drive the negative and positive behaviors to this change are requisite to this change lasting or fading away. Lewin/Schein change Model – Summation from ‘ The Corporate Culture Survival Guide ’ Edgar Schein.

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Resistance to Change is Cooperation for Improvement

Mike Cardus

This discomfort is Learning Anxiety.” – Schein pp. Fear of loss of power or position – The most common basis of resistance to change is the fear that your new learning will become a new role within the organization that will be lower in the status hierarchy or less powerful than the position you now hold. Positive role models.

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Resistance to Change. Fear of Punishment for Incompetence

Mike Cardus

There needs to be positive reinforcement for doing your job. Edgar Schein. What kind of collusion and hidden mistakes and sabotage are you creating by doing that?”. The managers nodded…. It is not an easy answer. Sometimes there should be negative reinforcement for not doing your job. Fear invites wrong figures. Edwards Deming.

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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

Edgar Schein. We are all in service positions. Be it coaching, training, motivation, resources, discipline, delegation of tasks, mentoring, etc… As a Team Development & Leadership coach & consultant you are in a service position. As a manager your job is to offer services to subordinates to complete their work.

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