This submission explains an eight month long programme for The Consultancy, a part of Gwynedd Council responsible for a range of building and engineering contracts and services for the Authority and for other clients in North Wales. The events included all of the management team of 35.
Coaching Skills for Leaders – encouraging coaching as part of the Leader’s skill set
Part of a coaching development programme for senior leaders in part of the publicly-owned National Health Service. The programme lasts for 6 months or so and aims to develop a coaching leadership style.
Resolving a Difficult Challenge With SF: This work involved a two day forum for a charity. The charity were given the opportunity to run a forum to to enrich the debate on the topic of the Intellectual Property (IP) of indigenous peoples with a particular focus on their free, prior and informed consent to the exploitation of their natural and cultural heritage.
A two day event for Jo Downs Handmade Glass, a small art/design/retail organisation. The event included the entire staff (around 30 people) in building progress at strategic, departmental and individual levels, as well as leaving the participants with SF skills to use for themselves in the future.
“Conversations that stick”
In late 2012 I had a conversation with the head of management development of a FTSE 100 company. He said he was interested in putting on a “coaching” program for about 300 managers because he saw no signs of daily coaching going on despite having spent a large amount of investment over the years on “coaching”.
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
The book is in two parts; the first part deals with the whole background and idea of positivity and introduces Fredrickson’s Positivity Ratio and the second part of the book deals with practical ideas in raise your own ratio.
The first Solutions Focus field book. This collection of articles from the AMED journal "Organisations & People" describes international experience of applying the positive power of Solutions Focus and Appreciative Inquiry.
This book is a massive fund of experience and know-how about keeping organisational change simple. Explore fourteen real cases with named organisations, all with different lessons about using SF in organisational change.