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Conflict Management and Listening

karli_kaye — 2013-04-18 04:40:25 UTC

Conflict can create change – both positive and negative. Because people have diverse perspectives and values, not every decision or action will be accepted or appreciated by every team member. Listening is one of the most essential skills a person can have when a conflict situation is brought forth. This image symbolizes conflict management. Encouragement and support are important for subordinates to receive when they identify conflict. The image represents the four types of listening as studied by C. Otto Scharmer. The four types of listening are downloading, factual, empathetic, and generative. Downloading Listening is a way of confirming what one already knows. It’s an assumption that the facts are known by the receiver. Listening is not deep. Factual Listening is learning new information, and listening is important for the receiver in order to gain facts. Empathetic Listening is feeling for another person by imagining their situation as one’s own. The connection is deeper when listening because the attention is given to the speaker. Generative Listening is effective listening as it’s difficult to explain once it’s been accessed. Each of these types of listening is represented in the image because the mouth and ear are signified with listening (Scharmer, 2009).

References

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DuBrin, A.J. (2013). Leadership: Research, Findings, Practice, and Skills (7th ed). Mason, OH: South-western.

Kirkpatrick, S. A. (2004). Visionary leadership theory. Encyclopedia of leadership. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc.

Kouzes, J. & Posner, B. (2008). The Leadership Challenge (4th ed). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Scharmer, C. O. (2009).Theory u: Leading from the future as it emerges

(1st ed). San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers.

Visionary Leadership Theory

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A vision is “the ability to imagine different and better future conditions and ways to achieve them” (DuBrin, 2013). Visions are described as the large picture where an organization would like to see itself be in the future. Goals and objectives are reached to achieve the vision. This picture represents a vision. The white walls indicate there are no goals or objectives set because the focus is on the big picture (behind the door). The green grass leading to the door signifies the values the organization upholds as it moves forward to stay focused on the collective vision. Not only is it important for the organization to remain focused on the values, but the leader and followers have to work together to reflect the needs and values of themselves in order to create and implement an effective vision, as stated in the Visionary Leadership Theory (Kirkpatrick, 2004).

Diversity/Enabling Others to Act

karli_kaye — 2013-04-18 06:42:30 UTC

Kouzes and Posner, authors of the Leadership Challenge, designed the Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership. This image represents the practice of enabling others to act. This practice encourages collaboration and teamwork, which is signified in this image through diversity of the world. The individuals holding up the “world” are working as a team. Not one person outshines any other. Synergy is a key word for this leadership topic because the sum of the group is greater than the individuals alone. Each hand that is shown in the image seems to display active involvement of all members, which is the purpose of this practice (Kouzes and Posner, 2008) Together, they are powerful.