All Blog Posts Tagged 'SF' (12)

We love the Christmas Season and as Elfie is a very passionate Christmas ambassador (maybe even more a kind of Christmas elf) we are super excited to invite you to our Solution Focused Advent Calendar for the 4th time! For the first time we have two language versions. Click below for the English version or here for the German version: …

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I work for a company where we are trying to implement SF methods. Here is our story.

We are a small company with around fifty office workers. Several months ago our computer systems were breached by an advanced ransom Trojan like Osiris. It encrypted our client’s database and many other important documents. That was a big blow for us. We had to pause most of our business processes to deal with that ransomware attack. We started to…

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Hello dear SOLfriends

I am happily using our first Tuesdays for a book announcement for our German speaking SOLfriends - my new book about SF Leadership in German is now available! Thanks to many of you that inspired me, helped me, taught me more about SF, discussed with me, wrote for me, etc. - THANK YOU SO MUCH for the last 10 years! I was touched when I found out, that this book covers the last 10 years as part of the…

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My latest SF book, "Mr. Bear Wants to Be Loved: And Other Stories to Make Change Easier, for Children & their Parents" is now out and available for purchase on Amazon.

This book was born as a challenge: how to introduce Solution-Focus in terms so simple that even a

6-year-old would understand.

True to its objective, it…

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If you are ever lucky enough to be handed one of my business cards, as well as my pretty face on it you’ll see a question:  it asks, ‘What do you want?’ 

It does so because this is a central question in any solution-focused (SF) conversation.  As a question it may seem an obvious one to ask in many contexts – it is difficult, for example, to imagine getting very far as an organisational consultant or as a coach without it.  

But in other settings, such as medicine, that’s not…

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SF for Cultural Diversity:  21st Century Productivity: Making the most of

multi-cultural virtual teams



Outcomes: 21st century productivity - use SF to achieve full potential in

multi-cultural and virtual teams. Promoted with SoL (Society for

Organizational Learning) Hungary and sfwork

Facilitators: Dr… Continue

This year the SFBTA (Solution-Focused Brief Therapy Association) conference was held in Banff, Alberta - in the heart of the …

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Alan Kay, owner of The Glasgow Group, is a Canadian solution-focused change management consultant specializing in… Continue

I'm seriously impressed with how the Summer Retreat is unfolding. The Group of Six have created such a fabulous platform as our starting point. The setting is unbelievable, the service great, and the 30-ish community members are co-creating an amazing experience.



So what is contributing to this? So many things...



- The care and attention given to creating a space for our being and doing.

- The gentle structure: opening and…

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New posting on my blog. Here is an excerpt:



Therefore:



IF therapy is about treatment and about helping people function in society (Using a sports metaphor, a therapist makes sure that an injured athlete recovers to compete again, via an effective rehab program)



AND



IF coaching is about helping people function well in society, if it is about living better and about performing better (Using a sports metaphor, a coach makes sure that the… Continue

Sometimes I think SF practice means skillfully navigating and using human biases and quirks.

Take, for example, the "anchoring bias".

if, in a questionnaire, I use the questions "how happy are you?" and "how often do you date?" in that order, the correlation of the answers to those questions is very small (0.1 or something like that).

But if I reverse the order of the questions, i.e. if I ask first "how often do you date?" and then "how happy are you?" the answers to the two… Continue

I'm currently involved in a range of projects whereby I've found using an SF approach fits perfectly. One of these projects is setting up the UK SF practice map .



I am due to train police custody officers in how to deal with people experiencing mental Distress and I have developed a Solution Focused Approach to....training session. I am also working… Continue