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    Sustainable Solutions for Leaders: A Fresh, Fast Approach
    Sustainable Solutions for Leaders: A Fresh, Fast Approach
    Sustainable Solutions for Leaders: A Fresh, Fast Approach
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    Sustainable Solutions for Leaders: A Fresh, Fast Approach

    By Solution Focus in Organisations

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    About this ebook

    As a leader, the content in this book will help you to use the Solution Focus approach to tackle challenges, facilitate change and improve interaction in your organisation. We suspect you are busy, so we have kept it short and practical. In it, you will find:
    • A leadership case study, to illustrate the power the Solution Focused approach has to transform an organisation and inspire the people working in it
    • New leadership perspectives, to provoke you to think about typical leadership challenges from a different angle
    • Leadership steps, to help you enhance sometimes difficult interactions.

    The book is written and edited by experienced Solution Focus practitioners from different countries who are all contributors to Solution Focus in Organisations (SFiO).
    SFiO is a global network of solution-focused practitioners who work in and with organisations; it promotes, supports and develops research and applications of SF in organisations. This book reflects that global experience.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSolution Focus in Organisations
    Release dateMay 3, 2019
    ISBN9780463550403
    Sustainable Solutions for Leaders: A Fresh, Fast Approach
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    Solution Focus in Organisations

    SFiO is a global network of solution-focused practitioners who work in and with organisations. It promotes, supports and develops research and applications of SF in organisations. Its contributors sponsored and produced this book. If you would like to become a contributor you can go to our website and look for the fast links.

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      Book preview

      Sustainable Solutions for Leaders - Solution Focus in Organisations

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      Table of Contents

      How this book can help you as a leader

      A short overview of Solution Focus for leaders

      Section 1: Solution Focus Case Study

      Chapter 1: Successful change in a mental health organisation

      Section 2: Solution Focus Leadership Perspectives

      Chapter 2: Solution Focused change management – beyond goal setting and action plans 

      Chapter 3: Customer feedback – Solution Focus adds value to NPS conversations

      Chapter 4: The employee experience –the action is in the interaction

      Chapter 5: ‘Making Agile work’ with Solution Focus

      Chapter 6: A SIMPLE route to leadership success

      Section 3: Solution Focus Leadership Steps

      Chapter 7: Improve attention and direction in Solution Focused leadership communication

      Chapter 8: Solution Focused questions for daily interactions

      Chapter 9: Involve everyone

      Chapter 10: A practical way to improve team relationships

      Chapter 11: Two tips to improve interactions

      About the Editors

      How this book can help you as a leader

      A team of contributors to ‘Solution Focus in Organisations’ (SFiO) has collaborated to design, write and edit this book. As a leader, it will help you tackle challenges, facilitate change and improve interaction in your organisation, using Solution Focus. We suspect you are busy, so we have kept it short and practical.

      SFiO is a global network of solution-focused practitioners who work in and with organisations. It promotes, supports and develops research and applications of SF in organisations. Its contributors sponsored and produced this book.

      You will find:

      A leadership case study, to illustrate the power the Solution Focused approach has to transform an organisation and inspire the people working in it

      New leadership perspectives, to provoke you to think about typical leadership challenges from a different angle

      Leadership steps, to help you enhance sometimes difficult interactions.

      Learn more about the Solution Focus approach

      If this book increases your curiosity, make your next small step to view our website at www.sfio.org and read, watch or listen to our InterAction journal contributions for other thought provoking and helpful pieces.

      Or keep in touch by joining our Linked In group at https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13507275/

      If you would like to start your journey to using SF, receive priority notification about new resources and events and support the work SFiO is doing, become an SFiO contributor, also on our website.

      The Editorial Team

      John Brooker (UK), Jesper Christiansen (Switzerland), Jenny Clarke (UK), Carey Glass (Australia), Stefan Kreil, (Germany). Please see the last page for details.

      A short overview of Solution Focus for leaders

      How Solution Focus (SF) can help you achieve what you need

      Sieds Rienks, a leader in a mental health organisation, was faced with poor client feedback about the organisation, low morale, difficulties in recruiting and financial losses. Traditional problem-solving methods and change programmes had been tried without success.

      Instead, Sieds and his leadership team took a solution focused approach to turn the situation around. In two years, the organisation had a financial surplus, excellent client feedback and motivated staff. You can learn more in Chapter 1.

      It is probable that most leaders will say they are solution focused. However, you can get to a solution via different routes. If the problem or change you have is "tame¹", and the problem definition is clearly agreed, then traditional logical problem focused tools and methods work well. If the problem or change is messy, involves lots of people with a vested interest in the outcomes, the outcomes are uncertain and the causes may be interconnected, traditional problem focused methods are, well… problematic.

      Practitioners of the Solution Focused approach acknowledge that there is a problem yet consider this may be unrelated to the solution and so do not analyse the problem or seek the cause. Instead, these practitioners have people collaborate to:

      Describe the future they want when the problem is resolved, or the change has happened. What will they or others notice is different in that future?

      In the case above, Sieds invited not just the leadership team but all those involved to create the description

      Look for glimpses of that future working in the present or past, as this might provide clues to achieving a solution

      Sieds encouraged people to find what was working and build on that

      Identify the resources and capabilities that are available to achieve that future

      Sieds and his leadership team, despite the adverse situation, inspired people to identify existing resources and capabilities throughout the organisation to help bring

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