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How we learn to learn in organisations
Mon, 11/02/2013 - 14:50 | Paul
'What is learning?' When this question was posed at a recent Organisational Development network meeting, several people's thoughts went straight back to school. In classrooms, they said, particularly during the early years, they were dragged through a fixed process with little decision or choice. Later, they and their colleagues chose to learn - some of them, at least.
What VUCA means for SF leaders
Mon, 03/12/2012 - 14:03 | Paul
It's good to stay abreast of buzz words, and the buzziest right now could well be VUCA. We'll get to what it means in a moment, but how do we know it's so current? Well, VUCA came up in the first two presentations at the launch of the Centre for Progressive Leadership this week at London Metropolitan University - in itself a buzzy place to be.
Save time, boost engagement and build resilience by focusing on solutions rather than problems
Tue, 30/10/2012 - 13:18 | Janine
Talking Point: Isn't it time HR focused on solutions rather than problems?
Published in Hrzone.co.uk http://tinyurl.com/97fhshg
What neuroscience tells us about getting things accomplished
Wed, 24/10/2012 - 08:51 | Paul
Learnt good strategies for getting things accomplished, from Magdalena Bak-Maier, ex neuro- scientist and author of Get Productive, at the London Coaching Group meeting this week.
“Your brain pushes you like a wonderful machine in the direction you want to go,” Magdalena told us. Even if it experiences blocks along the way, it can be completely reprogrammed – as evidenced by medicine, neuro-science and massive rehab studies from the army.
SOL2012 experience begins - some good questions
Thu, 06/09/2012 - 06:04 | Paul
As I look from my bedroom high over the magnificent quadrangle of Keble College, the signs are promising for a good day at the SOL2012 conference.
Yesterday afternoon, 30 people gathered at Science Oxford for our pre-conference and enthusiastically learned our 12 Things You Need To Know about Solutions Focus. They asked some great questions, which we can track through the conference, such as how much can one embrace SF in our personal lives, and does the methodology allow for quantum breakthrough thinking. (Lots and Yes, in my view).
Six solution-focused strategies when 'Nothing's better'.
Thu, 23/08/2012 - 22:03 | Paul
What do you do when you start a follow-up session and you ask in the classic solutions-focused tradition, ‘What’s better?’ and your client replies, ‘Nothing really’?
This was one of the great discussion topics at this year’s Brief summer school, and here are answers that the group of consultants, coaches and therapists came up with.
Fifty Shades of Therapy
Mon, 30/07/2012 - 17:46 | Paul
As I was reading volume 2 of the latest literary erotic sensation, Fifty Shades of Grey, I found a particularly arousing passage 79% of the way through. “SFBT - The latest therapy option,” one character recommends to our heroine.
If you want results in your organisation, what's different about a solutions-focused approach?
Tue, 03/07/2012 - 16:34 | Paul
In this short video Paul Z Jackson describes Solutions Focus as a 'comprehensive approach to change'. This means it offers something useful for any situation where people want something to be different and are willing to do something about it (even if they don't yet know precisely what that will be).
From 'coaching' to 'constructive conversations'...
Thu, 28/06/2012 - 10:42 | Paul
Our book, Positively Speaking http://www.thesolutionsfocus.co.uk/content/solutions-shop#PS is being translated into German. In England our concept of ‘constructive conversations’ has been warmly received – particularly among coaches.
While you are waiting...
Wed, 20/06/2012 - 13:03 | Paul
We heard a neat question from Emma Osei-Mensah, a speech and language therapist, at a recent meeting of our London SF group - http://www.meetup.com/Solution-Focus-London/the London SF group. She asked one of her patients suffering from a stammer: ‘While waiting for a cure to happen, how will you know you are living well?’
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