Solutions-Focused coaching offers you a way of developing a team sustainably and systematically – even in turbulent situations. You will take away a set of new tools, techniques, and tips that you can apply immediately in your work.
All work returns to two questions.
What am I doing here? and Who are you?
Using personality or behavior assessments (DiSC, MBTI, Big 5, etc.) continually reinforces the false belief that people are the problem and they are not good enough being who they are.
The elimination of the painful yearly charade of sitting with your manager taking 15 minutes to agree on what was your fault and agree on what ‘Exceeded Expectations’ vs. ‘Below Expectations’ – is a left over practice that is only culturally accepted as “this is how we have always done things”
Be slow and Process Focused developing leaders.
Developing an environment of Trust Attracting Behaviors will allow everyone to be a leader & rise to their level of capacity within the work. Slowing down will speed up the acceptance & rate of development for the entire company – improving the work, in turn improving the organization.
Organization Design is the foundation of the company and how you operate day to day to accomplish work. With pressure the foundational cracks become more apparent and enlarge. Leaving everyone to do the best they can while their work and capacity to improve the company is crumbling around them.
For each complaint a Skeleton Key may be most appropriate.
Most of the management and employee coaching problems that are work related can be solved through Solution-Focused (SF) coaching. As you continue to practice the SF tools you may realize that we all view situations in different ways. This difference can be powerful and helpful.
When someone calls something ‘part of our culture’ it is no longer open for discussion, even when the majority of people hate the behavior and know that this culture is broken.
Much of the modern day thinking on Organization Development, Team Building and Leadership stem from the work and research of Douglas McGregor.