The Solutions Focus: Making Coaching and Change SIMPLE - Softcover

Paul Z Jackson; Mark McKergow

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1904838065 ISBN 13: 9781904838067

Publisher: John Murray Business, 2006

Synopsis

This is a new and updated edition of this acclaimed first business book on the powerful, simple yet subtle approach to positive change in people, teams and organisations. Used around the world by a wide range of people, professions and organisations, the first edition has now sold nearly 10,000 copies and been translated into 7 languages.

Including new chapters reflecting the increasing importance of coaching and the solutions focus movement in the business environment, this wide-ranging book is filled with all the most important ideas, case examples and practical tips for managers, facilitators and consultants. Proven in many fields and with a distinguished intellectual heritage, "The Solutions Focus" provides a simple and direct route to progress in your organisation. It focuses on: solutions - not problems; in between: the action is in the interaction; make use of what's there; possibilities - past, present and future; and language. Every case is different. The trouble with traditional approaches to people problems is that they assume a straightforward relationship between cause and effect, between a problem and its solution. A solutions-focused approach sidesteps the search for the causes of a problem and heads straight for the solution, showing you how to envisage your preferred future and quickly takes steps forward.

The authors present a set of practical techniques, including specific forms of questioning that lead to immediate action and results. They show how to identify what is working in your organisation and amplify it to make useful changes; to focus on what is possible rather than what is intractable and how to be solution focused, not solution forced.

About this title

About the Authors

Mark McKergow PhD, MBA, is an international consultant, speaker and author who develops solutions focussed routes for organisational and personal development. Founder of The Centre for Solutions Focus at Work, he has pioneered the use of solutions-focused methods in organisational and business contexts and worked on every continent except Antarctica. Mark is also known for his work on leading as a host in organisations and communities; his TEDx Talk on the subject has been viewed thousands of times.

Paul Z. Jackson is an independent training consultant, facilitator and coach, with a wide variety of clients in both the public and private sectors including P&G, Google, Lush and Crossrail. He uses his experience in journalism and as a comedy producer for the BBC to help leaders and businesses improve training, workshops and events.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Murray Business
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1904838065
• ISBN 13: 9781904838067
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 288