John Brooker & Marika Tammeaid
Reviewed by Marika Tammeaid ColLab is an interaction blending relationship and task When I learned that John Brooker is writing a new book, I started looking forward to it with confidence and joy. It had already been a while from his last book The Creative Gorilla (2013), and we all had been able to enjoy his fresh, creative, and well-packaged tools in various SF conferences. So, that gave good grounds for anticipating a great book giving food for thought and action for working in SF way with organisations. And I must say, all these expectations were rewarded, and even more.
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Roy Marriott In this workshop, filmed at SOLWorld 2025 in Mechelen, Roy Marriott invites us to reflect on what it means to listen in a Solution Focused way. He begins with Michael Ende’s story of Momo, the little girl whose extraordinary gift was not advice or wisdom but her capacity to listen. From this starting point, Roy weaves together story, mindfulness, and practice to explore how listening can be both deeply simple and profoundly transformative.
John Teager Listen to A Chapter With the Author - Jan Marklund in Conversation with John Teager SFiO - Solution Focus in Organisations · A Chapter With the Author - In Conversation with Jan Marklund Lead Like a Swede - Jan Marklund's book reviewed by John Teager A guiding principle of Solution Focus (SF) is to find what works and do more of it. In the 2024 World Happiness Report , the Nordic countries are the happiest in the world (Finland 1st; Denmark 2nd; Iceland 3rd; Sweden 4th and Norway 7th) and they have maintained these high positions for many years. Each year, Nordic leaders appear to be doing more of what works. Notably though, change is happening, as it always does. In all these countries except Iceland and particularly in Norway and Sweden, the old are now much happier than the young, which is a concern. So, what needs to happen?
Meet up on 25 April 2024, Agility is the leaders, individuals, teams, and organisations. It is the ability to dynamically sense and respond to changes in the (business) environment with actions that are focused, fast and flexible.
On 29-31 October 2021, SF experts will be sharing their years of knowledge, strategies and tactics. Whether you’re focused on managing change, building culture, enhancing motivation, goal attainment, strengthening engagement, coaching skills or increasing business agility, we've got you covered.
The “Users Guide to the Future” as a Coaching Tool (Version originale en anglais)
Article Résumé Le « guide du routard vers le futur » est un modèle créé par Mark McKergow et Helen Bailey permettant la mise en place de futurs orientés solution. Lors de notre intervention à la conférence SOLWorld 2019, nous avons eu l’opportunité de présenter ce modèle et d’en faire la démonstration au cours d’une séance de coaching en direct et ainsi de montrer comment des clients peuvent trouver des signes de progrès lorsqu’ils font face à des projets complexes et ambitieux. Modèle
Aakusti Oksanen (MA) is a self-employed entrepreneur and artist dedicated to bringing forward the ingenuity of West African rhythm. He co-created a method combining solution focus approach, experiential learning, art and drumming in 2015. Talking Drum method for leaders and teams has been widely used in Finnish public sector development programmes with over 400 top executives. Aakusti has also successfully delivered for Accenture, ECHA, European Commission, European Parliament, City of Helsinki, Microsoft, Roche and others.
Alex works with leading international business schools and organisations throughout the world, and he is well known for his work which blends leading-edge practices in leadership, organisational change and innovation, with the art of improvisation.
He applies solutions-focused approaches throughout his broader work in environmental and social sustainability, and within a range of humanitarian programmes in Uganda, Kenya, Bangladesh, Colombia and Venezuela. Alex is the Founder and Director of Improwise, which draws its inspiration from the wisdom of improvisation, an approach to connecting with others which requires trust, empathy, humility, curiosity, leadership, creativity and a passion for experimentation.
Ania has 8 years of leadership experience in a Start-Up and understands agile practices from within. From this experience she developed her passion to facilitate change and became an excellent LCP Coach and facilitator. She constantly focuses on the value she brings to her clients. With her authentic style Ania challenges in a constructive and supportive way to create the desired impact. Ania is passionate about finding be the most useful and effective approaches to support her clients.