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Here is a story of a good coaching friend of mine, Katalin Hankovszky, that I want to share with you. [...]
If you want to help others to find solutions and enhance progress it is useful to ask solution focused questions that focus on the preferred future, observable precursors, positive differences, and clues of progress. Here you find great questions to enhance progress. [...]
A great story that illustrates the power of the simple question “what works?”. Most of the time it is much easier to do more of what is working than to try to fix what is broken and doesn’t work.
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Watch this viedo – what if we valued our employees, our clients, our family only half as much as he does? [...]
You decide how you want to see the world – through problem-focused or resourceful and appreciative glasses – but consideer, however you decide, it makes a difference!
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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! [...]
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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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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Secret Number 5: They focus on usefulness! Successful leaders create an atmosphere of progress by making sure that they and their teams work on useful things in the most useful manner. [...]