Solution-Focused Consulting and Training in Toronto Canada
Spent time with the Solution-Focused Consulting & Training North American Chapter in Toronto Ontario Canada.
Change in Companies and Teams is Not Only Possible it is Inevitable
If a team seems un-movable, don’t just push harder and scream about how obstinate they are being…resistance is futile. Use the inevitability of change to slightly shift their shared perception from stuck to change.
Is it Useful to the team? If not then STOP IT!
You follow advice from someone or are convinced that X is useful, and Y did X so therefore it will work for me.
That makes sense. Until you do it and it does nothing.
Photo Inquiry Friday The team is stuck?
“Stuckness” is incredibly common amongst teams. It may come from a myriad of problems and knowing the problem does not necessarily give us a solution.
Using SOLVED to Make Meetings Better
Solution-Focused – executive, management and team coaching is all about pragmatic applications.
In preparation for a kick-off meeting, beginning almost 24 months of work, with a new organization I used the SOLVED method to determine how to make the meeting better.
19 Coaching Questions When the person does not want coaching
Sometimes coaching is forced on an employee by their manager because they are having a tough time with a new position or their existing manager just does not know what to-do, and many other reasons.
Okay, when that happens what do you do as an executive coach?
Where are the deeper questions?
We think that “deep” responses come from “deep” questions, not true. Responses can be at the proper depth that the person answering the question feels is necessary, it has very little to do with the question.
How accurate are your predictions?
If, as a manger, you cannot predict what employees are doing and the completion date of delegated tasks…you cannot do your work.
SOLVED Solution-Focused
The value in this method is that by focusing on what you want the solution to be as opposed to focusing on the problem, your energy and focus can be put into developing action steps towards the solution. The problem is known and acknowledged AND the solution is found in examining what you know, what resources you have and need in order to solve your problems in your context and in learning how to continually improve.
The Solution is Not Necessarily Related to the Problem
Acknowledging the problem AND developing a shared understanding of the goal to be achieved. Then working backward to accomplish this goal by carefully and pragmatically searching through the organization, team and / or persons real-life and work experience to identify exceptions of when the solution is already happening or could possibly happen in the future.