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Bring Solutions Focus to bear on your organisation's sticking points. If you find yourself struggling to clarify or achieve your organisation’s goals, consultancy may help you to make major shifts in the right direction.
Change Projects
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Chief Executive Michael Coughlin talks about how the programme impacted the council and what accounted for the effectiveness of the programme. He says, the answer lies perhaps in the simplicity of the approach, which is in widespread use in therapeutic settings across the world and is increasingly used in organisations such as ours. It is easy to understand and can be implemented without changing a great deal else about what we do. Its emphasis on building on what already works well is attractive to staff who may be tired of fad-like initiatives offering little impact. Back to Consultancy Menu Back to Top |
Chief Executive Michael Coughlin |
Strategy Workshops
1-2 days, for managers and teams
Get your team focused on clear aims and objectives, aligned and ready for action, with a one or two-day strategy workshop. These are always engaging, directly relevant and involve the views of all team members to make best use of the resources available. Take a look at this case study by Colin Coombes, Learning and Development Manager at the Tate. Back to Consultancy Menu Back to Top |
Appraisal Design
Customised, for HR stakeholders and MDs
Differences that make a difference - with carefully-designed questions and feedback sessions that produce managers glad to hear what their colleagues have to say and motivated to make useful changes in their own performance.
Would you like?
That’s what Hallmark Care Homes wanted when they asked us to redesign their process. The result was an elegant system, implemented with full training for the appraisers. Back to Consultancy Menu Back to Top |
People and Performance Director, Gemma Todd |
360 Degree Feedback
Customised, for leaders and managers
360° SF Feedback evaluates people’s performance by eliciting comments from a selection of co-workers, managers, direct reports and internal and external customers, and offering this to participants in a structured, supportive and developmental way.
If you want a system to:
We begin from the premise that people are good enough – and we can all improve on our performance and contribution as managers and leaders. |
Michael Coughlin, Chief Executive, Reading Borough Council |
This process develops the significant and positive contributions that individuals make in their work.
The 360° SF Feedback system is part of a process to help managers create meaningful action plans to move them and the organisation forward, reinforcing effective behaviours they already exhibit, whilst developing areas where they show less skill. It is not a system designed to ‘examine’ or ‘catch people out’.
Understanding our impact on others can be a significant step towards creating more choices of behaviour and becoming more skilled in our interactions.
The entire process is solution-focused; this includes how we work with you, the questions asked, how feedback is delivered and the structure and focus of individual action plans.
We customise 360° questionnaires, individual and group reports, supporting workshops and briefing sessions to meet your specific requirements.
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SF Professional Development Programme
3-4 months, for coaches, consultants, facilitators, leaders, managers, professionals, staff, and trainers
Discover the next generation of change technology.
In these 6 comprehensive steps, you will learn how to:
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The SFPD programme is a compelling mix of presentations and activities, each step building your knowledge and skills. The format is three sets of two-day sessions over a period of 3-4 months. In the sessions, you will get to understand the principles and use them right away, applying the tools and concepts to case studies and your own real-life issues within your organisation. In between sessions, you will have the chance to practice your new skills with your colleagues and clients and get feedback on what worked. This means your skills will improve fast, enabling you to put your learning to good use immediately.
The SFPD programme is a compelling mix of presentations and activities, each step building your knowledge and skills. The format is three sets of two-day sessions over a period of 3-4 months. In the sessions, you will get to understand the principles and use them right away, applying the tools and concepts to case studies and your own real-life issues within your organisation. In between sessions, you will have the chance to practice your new skills with your colleagues and clients and get feedback on what worked. This means your skills will improve fast, enabling you to put your learning to good use immediately.
The SF Professional Development Programme runs as an in-house programme and is used in Solutions Focused consultancy engagements.
A complete approach to change, the Solutions Professional Development Programme brings the radical simplicity of the fast-growing solutions focus approach to organisations, if you:
Headline Project and Capacity Building |
For too long, business has wasted time focusing on the blocks to progress rather than finding the routes to success - the Solutions Focus gives you the opportunity to find the routes to success. Don't be fooled, this process is Simple but it is far from simplistic!" Chris Howe - Managing Director of Change Group and global change consultant |
The 6-step Professional Programme teaches a whole new approach to change, so as well as delivering on a current headline project, it leaves a skill legacy for parallel and future projects.
Three levels at once – our work with you operates simultaneously at an:
- Organisational level
- Team level
- Individual level
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Licensing our Programme
Customised, for consultancies and organisations
If you want to licence our programmes, they are available with full train-the-trainer workshops, trainer guides and participant materials. We have licensed programmes to large organisations and also to independent training organisations that want to share the best in solutions-focused training. Training Your Trainers in Solutions Focus For larger organisations that have change programmes in place, an excellent way to save time and money during the change process is to train your trainers in the Solutions Focus approach. By knowing what to focus on and – crucially - what to overlook, your trainers can attain results in a much shorter time and foster a culture in which the changes are more likely to stick once they have happened. Back to Consultancy Menu Back to Top |
Thanks again for your support in running my first workshop and being able to use your materials and program. I loved it!" Annette Gray - Director, Consulting & Coaching, Growth Leadership Solution |