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Adding lightness in order to get your team to take flight
In the world of aviation design, there’s a practice of removing weight so an aircraft requires less energy to fly higher, faster and further. It seems simple, but it takes considerable skill to know...
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Why is it Comforting to Listen to Problem-focused Media
The job of the journalist is to create transparency. So, why do we pay so much attention to the media’s incessant drumbeat about the world, our country and our city falling apart? Why do we turn on the...
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ROI in the Application of Solution Focus in Banking
An interview: Olympia, welcome back. We’ve already heard from you about Solution Focus Mentoring in organizations. You work with a variety of organizations on projects using the Solution Focus approach...
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Sales Shadowing in Pharma Sales. An Application of Solution Focus
An interview: Olympia, we last heard from you about using SF to achieve and measure ROI in working with bank branch managers. The following project involved working with pharmaceutical sales people in...
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Value Creation: Develop Solutions That Work for Clients
If you are an expert inside an organization or a consultant / supplier of knowledge services, you probably find it hard to resist offering opinions informed by your skills or process. All the more so...
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Small-Steps and Prototypes To Create Better, then Bigger Change
Now that people are used to seeking change – correction, demanding it – we often find ourselves like the dog chasing and catching the car’s tailpipe. How do we manage big expectations and actually make...
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Explaining Solution Focus to an insurance actuary
My colleague Promod Sharma of Taxevity* is an insurance actuary. He wanted to hear via a typical client story about how I personally use the Solution Focus approach to help support change in...
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Solution Focus in a Large Complex Organization
“Now we can see the cheese, not only the holes!” – Head of Strategy Project Interview with Susanne Burgstaller who is a Solution-Focused consultant, coach, and facilitator. She is founder and managing...
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Autonomy Mastery Purpose: Engage them with Solution Focus
It’s not money that motivates people to better performance and satisfaction … according to Dan Pink. He says money is a motivator, but in a limited way. Surprisingly, it doesn’t encourage anything...
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A Change Influencer in Public Sector Co-ordination Agencies
Interview: Jonas Wells is a developer at Sweden’s National Association of Coordination Agencies and local coordinating manager for the Coordination Agency of South Dalecarlia. He came across SF in 2002...
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4 Strategic Planning Co-creation Steps & Benefits
Strategic co-creation planning…what’s that? Co-creation to speed up understanding, buy-in, implementation Many organizations, particularly those in the for-profit SME and the NFP sectors have, until...
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Six Big Stakeholder Opportunities in Planning Strategy
Taking the potential for stress out of planning isn’t easy. In fact, though it’s usually unnecessary, anxiety is a reasonable thing to expect. Hot Docs Three-Year Plan video Here’s an example of where...
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