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6 ideas about setting goals in your organisation | Paul

11/9/2017

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​Here are 6 thoughts about goals:

  1. It’s unethical to hold people to goals that they have set, because much of what happens after you set a goal is unpredictable.
  2. Watch out for when goals turn counter-productive. Like prescription drugs, they can have unwanted side-effects.
  3. It’s important to give yourself permission not to stick to goals when circumstances change and you need your wits about you to deal with uncertainty.
  4. Perhaps if goals are modest and short-term, they will not be so delusional. 
  5. A deadline by which you have to produce a piece of work can be very productive. I write here as a trained journalist. 
  6. If you work with others, instead of setting goals ask them what they would like to achieve. Then when you meet again, ask them what progress they have made.​
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Answer and question sessions

4/9/2017

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​In many forms of coaching and therapy, the practitioner has a plan. The course of the conversation depends relatively little on what the client wants. That makes it predictable and thus easy for the coach. But is the comfort of the coach or the therapist (rather than the client) the goal of the session?

​In taking a solutions-focused approach, you do have to listen to the client, and the questions you ask depend a great deal on what the client has to say.

 
We have a favourite SF training exercise, in which you practice with a partner and your next question must include a significant word or phrase from the previous answer. So the pattern shifts from ‘Question, answer, question’ to ‘Answer, question, answer’.
Positively Speaking The Solutions Focus
In SF coaching sessions, we start by asking what the client wants. That’s the plan, and that’s as far as the plan goes. The rest depends upon the answer you get and whatever is needed to get a more detailed description of what’s wanted, descriptions of resources and descriptions of progress.
 
And the value of that? These questions will produce change. And they will keep you as the coach in the moment and on your toes.
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