Welcome to the SolutionScope blog!
What is this blog about?
Here you will find information about the most useful solution focused resources to achieve progress and great solutions.
Come in and find out….!
Solution Focused practice has its roots in the therapeutic approach devised by Insoo Kim Berg and Steve de Shazer at BFTC Milwaukee and others. The approach values simplicity in philosophy and language and aims to discover “what works” in a given situation, simply and practically. The focus on solutions (not problems), the future (not the past) and on what’s going well (rather than what’s gone wrong) leads to a positive and pragmatic way to work with organisations and individuals.
This approach is currently spreading through the areas of consulting and management. A large number of publications referring to a rich variety of application projects can now be observed.
One of the reasons the solution-focused approach is so attractive is the fact that it touches upon central questions and aspects of success.
The main questions raised are:
Although the approach concentrates on questioning techniques, solution-focused work today comprises a broad range of principles, methods, and instruments that have been successfully tested in practice. There is a strong belief in the background that, due to non-linearity, the clients are the only experts of their own lives. One of the most important core elements is therefore the focus on the goals of the clients, positive differences like things that are working, their own resources, possible solutions, and small next steps.
Who is blogging?
It’s me, Dominik Godat (and some guest bloggers), who is writing this blog. As an economist with a Master’s degree in business and economics, HR specialist and founder of Godat Coaching (www.godat.ch), I work mainly in Switzerland and Western Europe as a coach with profit and non-profit organizations, helping them to implement solution-focused thinking. I also train and coach individuals, managers, and teams who are looking for success in their private and business lives.
In 2006 I founded Random Coaching and have influenced more than 800 solution-focused coaches, managers, HR-professionals and others since. I contributed to books like Solution Tools, Solution-Focused Management, and 57 SF Activities for Facilitators and Consultants, I am member of the international steering group of the SOLWorld community (www.solworld.org), and work closely together with coaching pioneers like Peter Szabo amongst others. I also hold workshops at international conferences and lecture at the Swiss Institute of Business Administration in Zurich (www.sib.ch) and at the University of Applied Science Lucerne (www.hslu.ch). In my private life, I live with my girlfriend near Lucerne, Switzerland, and love to be outside enjoying Lake Lucerne and the mountains.
If you want to contact me, simply leave a comment on this page and I will respond to you as quickly as possible.
