The Solutions Focus - The SIMPLE way to positive change

By Paul Z Jackson & Mark McKergow

Published by Nicholas Brealey

The Solutions Focus is the first book to introduce to the organisational and business world this tried and tested set of ideas, skills and techniques from other people-centred professions.

It takes you beyond outmoded ideas, replacing over-complicated theories and methods with a dynamic, intensely practical approach that provides the positive outcomes that organisations crave, along with fresh learning every time.

The authors show you how to identify what is working in your team or 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.

While the method and scope are wide-ranging and comprehensive, the basic principles are very simple:

• Identify what works and do more of it
• Stop doing what doesn't work and do something else

Inside, you'll find all the most important ideas, case examples and practical tips for managers, facilitators and consultants; in short, an in-depth guide to transforming how you approach and deliver change.

The Solutions Focus takes a systems-based view of the world, where loops and feedback effects drive complex phenomena. It draws from the work of pioneering US therapist Milton Erickson and has developed in parallel with NLP and the new science of complexity.

This book will interest everyone – from managers to consultants, trainers to NLP practitioners – who wants practical and innovative workplace solutions, while doing more with less.

The authors offer consultancy, training, presentations and workshops on solution-focused methods and run a website at www.thesolutionsfocus.com dedicated to the fast-growing interest in this subject.

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