The Smell of the Place – a different approach to work with the culture in your company. Inspired by Samantra Ghoshal and Otto C. Scharmer. I have made a small practical workbook I hope you will dare to use it. Season greetings to you all.

1. Smell of the place and leadership arenas –
Enforcing next level of CORE dialogues
Copenhagen 11-12-2012. Nels Karsvang
The smells of flowers The smell of old boots What’s the smell in your company

2. Content
Guide for how to use this workbook
Sessions are scalable from 5 to 500 people Side 3
The smell of the place
Motivation – building the context of the right smell Side 4-8
Leadership arenas Side 9
Coaching towards purposeful action
CV Nels Karsvang Side 10
References and inspired by the works of:
Samantra Ghoshal et.al. : MANAGING RADICAL CHANGE BY SUMANTRA. Publisher: Penguin Books,2002 edition
Scharmer, C. O. (2009). Theory U: Leading from the future as it Emerges, The social technology of
presencing. San Francisco. Berret-Koehler Publishers, Inc.
http://youtu.be/UUddgE8rI0E
Working with leadership and business
culture in the spiritual paradigm
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3. Guide for how to use this workbook
Sessions are scalable from 5 to 500 people
Prioritize the topics and line them up
Give a short presentation on the according to good and bad smell.
1 differences between the two 4 Then do two coaching sessions one
style of motivation. on moving away from the bad smell
and one on enforcing the good smell.
Have groups identify potential Do a guided metaphorical
bad smell according to the meditation including the company
2 themes in an informal way. 5 values. Then have the individual
Ending up with topics for draw up the right the good and right
coaching. smell of the company as pictures
Have groups identify potential
Choose a situation from each of
bad good according to the
the 4 arenas and do core/coaching
3 themes in an informal way. 6
dialogue on each arena's towards
Ending up with topics for
or enforcing purposeful action.
coaching.

4. The smell of the place
Motivation – building the context of the right smell
Away from the bad smell Towards the good smell

5. The smell of the place
Identify potential bad smell
Where do we/I experience it
in our every day work life How do I/we react to it Coaching topics
Strategy
Compliance
Control
Contract
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6. The smell of the place
Identify potential good smell
Where do we/I experience it
in our every day work life How do I/we react to it Coaching topics
Stretch
Discipline
Trust
Support
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7. The smell of the place
Prioritize the smell and build the movement
Away from the bad smell Towards the good smell
Prioritization of
1
coaching topic
Prioritization of
2
coaching topic
Prioritization of
3
coaching topic
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8. Meditation on the good smell that emerges
Write or draw the purposeful good smell of your company
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9. Leadership arenas
Coaching towards purposeful action
Identify situations from each of the four arenas and give each a headline
Energy
3 1 1
Purposeful
High Distracted
action
2
3
Low Procrastinators Disengaged
4
4 2
Focus
Low High
Do Coaching on 1 with the goal of understanding how you do it.
Do coaching on 2 3 4 each topic with the goal of being
purposeful in these situations .
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10. CV Nels Karsvang
Nels Klint Karsvang Dare to release your organization
from merely causal thinking.
Be present, be you and
push for the objectives.
Secure yourself; the power of being
intimate with you –
Nelskarsvang@gmail.com knowing your patterns of belief.
+45 2466 5258 Balance the awareness of you and the
MA in Psychology & Philosophy (Theory of science), other – the context
Certified clinical psychotherapist, MPF
http://dk.linkedin.com/in/nelskarsvangxhumanxresources Nels Karsvang Dec. 2012.
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