The Solutions Focus: Making Coaching and Change SIMPLE

by Mark McKergow, Paul Z. Jackson

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 solutions - not problems; in 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.

Genres: Business

287 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 22, 2011

Reviews

[Paul Brown · Rating 5 out of 5]

A must read for those interested in the Solutions Focus...

I started my journey as a Solutions Focus Coach and practitioner relatively recently and I found this book the perfect accompaniment to other training I am doing. Simply stated, it’s the best SF book I have stumbled on so far, you will find lots of simple explanations and examples of working and practices which really helped me get more familiar and confident with the method and it’s approach.