Category: Leadership

Organizational Change: Human Skills

Previously, I’ve been talking about conceptual and technical skills for change.  This time I’d like to talk about the most important skills necessary for organizational change, namley human skills.  This is described as the ability to work as a group and to build cooperation within the team. Human skills are concentrated on working with people.…
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July 30, 2012 0

Leadership Styles

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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July 23, 2012 1

Organizational Change: Technical Skills

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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July 9, 2012 0

Organizational Change: Conceptual Skills

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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July 2, 2012 0

Change: What Skills are Required?

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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June 25, 2012 0