Reflect your leadership experiences and skills or your performance with these two online webinars in August – Improve your performance-Workshop and Solution Focused Leadership-Workshop. [...]
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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In a non-linear, globalized, non-predictable world, like we encounter today, we can’t control as much as we want to, and it’s hard to maintain the status quo. Therefore more leadership is needed that leads to more self-responsible and better employees that can deal with change and are constantly looking for better solutions and progress.
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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. [...]
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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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. [...]
Secret Number 4: They know the things that already work well!
Successful leaders know a lot – but most of all, they know what already works and are aware of the fact, that they can build on that to reach their goals.
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To become a high performer surely isn’t easy, but this guideline might help you to achieve what you want.
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