A little story about the effects of acknowledgement. Think about how you behave in your company or at home and what difference it can make for you,
your employees or your family! [...]
There are various theories and great evidence that show that people learn their behavior from role models. Although most of the leaders I have met so far are aware of this fact, they behave completely different in everyday life. [...]
If you want an increased performance of your employees then you should use the tool “performance appraisal” in a solution focused and motivating way and look into the future. [...]
When I wrote The Powerful Performance Program, I didn’t think that it would be that successful. Not only are a lot of people buying it, but some of them have also already increased their performance tremendously within a short period of time. [...]
Useful performance appraisals aim to improve the performance of your employees. Therefore use the tool “performance appraisal” in a solution focused way and look into the future in the most motivating way.
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A research study in a Norwegian plant shows that solution focused leadership training has significant effects on the level of leadership behavior as well as on the level of hard facts like productivity. [...]
Secret Number 6: They go beyond defining goals! Great leaders not only define what their goals are, but they also want to know what will be different once they reach them. Because they know that this is the key for their own motivation and the commitment of their employees.
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Peter Szabo’s new book “S.U.R.F.” shows you a new way to move ahaed and to use forward-moving differences to enhance sustainable change [...]
For my workshop at the international Solworld conference in Vienna in 2006, I came up with the idea to start asking solution focused coaching questions randomly. The huge success since then kept me doing it. If you want to experience a random coaching session (e.g. via skype), please contact me (leave a comment or send me an email at coaching(at)godat.ch).
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