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SF Practice by Government

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Landmark SFBT book - management cases/uses/examples wanted please

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Where are you based? (City & Country)
Cheltenham, UK
In which role(s) do you use SF ideas and tools? (You can pick more than one)
Leader, Coach, Consultant, Trainer
What is your website (if any)?
http://www.sfwork.com
About your connection to Solution Focused Work (based on Insoo Kim Berg and Steve de Shazer at BFTC Milwaukee and others):
With Jenny Clarke, I run the Centre for Solutions Focus at Work based in the UK but working all over the world. We aim to lead the latest developments in SF thinking and practice with our seminars, trainings, in-house development programmes, books (we also run the SolutionsBooks imprint) and keynote presentations. More at www.sfwork.com.

I am author of The Solutions Focus (with Paul Z Jackson) - now in its second edition and eight languages, Positive Approaches to Change and Solutions Focus Working (both with Jenny Clarke).

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Mark McKergow commented on Coert Visser's blog post 'How do organizational consultants benefit from the solution-focused approach?'
Wow, congratulations on the success of your book! Great news for the whole SF community.
yesterday
Mark McKergow commented on Janine Waldman's group 'SF Coaching'
Phil, I wonder why they asked YOU to design the training etc, rather than one of the other coaches?... What did they see in YOU that told them you would do a great job? Might even be worth asking about! :-)
on Wednesday
Mark McKergow commented on Coert Visser's blog post 'How do organizational consultants benefit from the solution-focused approach?'
Our book Solutions Focus Working: 80 real-life lessons for successful organisational change has 14 cases written up by the consultants and their clients - might be worth taking a look. Obtainable through Amazon or at the sfwork shop, http://www.sfwo…
December 8
John Nicol commented on Mark McKergow's blog post 'Meeting with Agile software pioneer Alistair Cockburn'
Thanks for posting Mark. Interesting read. Been (loosely) applying the 4 Agile manifesto bullets above in a recent telecoms operations project in North America. By helping focus the team efforts on getting software working and then sharing the 'step…
November 24

My sfwork blog

2010 UK courses – dates now out including Accelerated Learning, SF Pro and SF Negotiation

Coaching with OSKAR – a great way for managers to learn SF

Beyond targets – how goals are not the answer (in Copenhagen or elsewhere)

SF conflict management – one day workshop 19 Jan 2010, Bradford

Great article on narrative practice – lots of connections

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    Meeting with Agile software pioneer Alistair Cockburn

    As you will probably know, I enjoy meeting people who have led developments in other field which seem to have some resonance or connection with SF practice. (See the Karlstad Group section of the site for more details.) You also have have heard me talk about Agile methodologies, fact, flexible and emergence ways of developing software (and also running projects) which embrace and use continuing change and interaction rather than try to prevent it. So I was looking forward to meeting Alistair

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    Posted on November 23, 2009 at 12:12pm — 3 Comments

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    SF gets a warm welcome at the British Wittgenstein Society

    Yesterday was marked by the Autumn lecture of the British Wittgenstein Society, and Kirsten Dierolf and I were very pleased not only to be invited to the lecture, but also to be included in a special dinner following the event. The lecturer was Prof Rom Harré (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Romano_Harr%C3%A9) who has added Chair of the LSE’s Centre for the Philosophy of Natural and Social Sciences to his large collection of… Continue

    Posted on November 3, 2009 at 3:54pm — 2 Comments

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    Art of Hosting - interesting meta-method of emergent change approaches

    As a practicing consultant, coach and facilitator I always try to keep developing myself by attending trainings and other events from time to time. Within the SF world this is not always easy – after 17 years I feel as if I’ve seen quite a lot. Some of you will know of my recent work on developing the idea of Leader as Host, and part of my research led me to the Art of Hosting group (www.artofhosting.org).

    Art of Hosting (AoH) is a movement that started… Continue

    Posted on October 5, 2009 at 5:00pm —

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    Praise from the British Wittgenstein Society!

    My paper with Kirsten Dierolf on the Grammar of Neuroscience (published in the SFCT journal InterAction and available for free download at http://tinyurl.com/lqb7p5) has come to the attention of Professor Danièle Moyal-Sharrock (http://herts.academia.edu/DanieleMoyalSharrock) at the University of Hertfordshire and founder of the British Wittgenstein Society. She is a Wittgenstein specialist, and… Continue

    Posted on September 25, 2009 at 2:00pm —

    Mark McKergow

    At last... Inbetween is finally published - read it here

    You may remember that Harry Korman and I have been working on an epic paper about the radical simplicity of SF, and I put up a draft some time ago. Well, it's finally out in Journal of Systemic Therapies (following quite a lot of revision after the various peer reviewers comments), and you can read the final version at www.sfwork.com/jsp/index.jsp?lnk=6d8.

    The reference is McKergow MW and Korman H (2009), Journal of Systemic Therapies Vo… Continue

    Posted on July 6, 2009 at 9:30am — 6 Comments

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    At 4:00pm on November 14, 2009, Maria Pressentin said…
    Hi Mark,

    The pleasure is all mine! You're a brilliant teacher, I intend to learn more from you any minute I can : )

    Do keep me posted on your latest new leadership concepts, there is a fantastic potential on your new concept, and personally I really believe it will take off and STICK! Best of luck on that!

    Maria
    At 9:24pm on May 18, 2009, Gerda Hammink said…
    Dear Mark,
    how happy I am with this virtual network! The spirit of SOL 2009 stays with me because of the possibility to stay in contact with all the great people I have met on Texel. Thank you very, very, very much for making this possible. Gerda
    At 10:29am on May 18, 2009, Marianne Inghels said…
    Dear Mark, thanks for the sharing thoughts during breakfast. And thanks for all your power and energy you have been investing in the (virual) network to make even more synergy possible... Marianne
    At 4:12pm on May 11, 2009, John Bonnett said…
    Thanks for your early welcome to the group.
    My minimal acquainance with the SF subject has led me to think its use could make business consultants more effective. Is that a possibility? Are there any examples, cases, where a series of SF steps have proven successful. Is there a 'best' approach to optimize its use?
    At 10:33pm on April 28, 2009, Roger Acton said…
    Thanks Mark that clarifies things for me - I'll stick to using the full tool set.
    All the best, Roger
    At 8:35pm on April 27, 2009, Roger Acton said…
    Thanks for the welcome Mark much appreciated. Actually I do have one question/comment for you. I have really enjoyed applying the Solutions Focus Model in both 1:1 coaching and workshop situations - it feels really natural to me but ofd course needs losts of practice, as you say simple but subtle. My question relates to OSKAR, given your Solution Focus model has such flexibility why did you feel the need to add a specific coaching model. Thanks, Roger
    At 12:47pm on February 19, 2009, Julia Cook said…
    Hi Mark,

    Many thanks for the welcome, nice to hear from you. Kamila has also left a note for me, I feel like I belong already!

    Don't do Facebook or any of those kinds of sites so it might take me a while to feel my way around this site. Gonna go now and see if I can do the friend adding thing....wish me luck! Julia.
    At 7:07pm on February 18, 2009, Karin Holzinger said…
    Hello Mark, thanks for adding me to your circle of "friends" on SOLWorld, I'm honoured.

    ...currently trying very hard to remain solution-focused in the face of bad weather with snow and icy wind in Vienna ;o). Regards, Karin
    At 6:34am on February 13, 2009, Meri Walker said…
    Thanks for the tips, Mark. I've put code into these text boxes in Nings for awhile now, but I don't know WHAT code to use to get a Twitter update in here. Does Ning have a specific widget for this? Do I get it from Twitter? I've got updates on my wordpress blog with a plugin but I don't know what kind of widget to use here for Twitter... do you know? I figured you would because your feed looks so nice...
    At 3:05pm on February 12, 2009, Meri Walker said…
    One more thing...Just followed you on Twitter and would love to add my Twitter updates to my page here. Would you please point me to the widget or whatever directions you used to add yours to your page?

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    Hans-Peter Korn

    SF conqueres Software Development

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    How do organizational consultants benefit from the solution-focused approach?

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    Clean Language and SF

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    Meeting with Agile software pioneer Alistair Cockburn

    Posted by Mark McKergow on November 23, 2009 at 12:12pm — 3 Comments

    Coert Visser

    The Thinktank That Created The Solution-Focused Approach - Interview with Eve Lipchik

    Posted by Coert Visser on November 17, 2009 at 7:35pm

    Hans-Peter Korn

    Lean Development - Synergetic with SF?

    Posted by Hans-Peter Korn on November 7, 2009 at 12:30pm — 2 Comments

    Coert Visser

    20 Solution Focused techniques

    Posted by Coert Visser on November 4, 2009 at 7:30pm

    Mark McKergow

    SF gets a warm welcome at the British Wittgenstein Society

    Posted by Mark McKergow on November 3, 2009 at 3:54pm — 2 Comments

    Coert Visser

    Presupposing Agency and Responsilbility

    Posted by Coert Visser on November 1, 2009 at 10:23am — 1 Comment

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    Art of Hosting - interesting meta-method of emergent change approaches

    Posted by Mark McKergow on October 5, 2009 at 5:00pm

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