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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Last saturday the first skype workshop on solution focused leadership took place with great learning experiences for me and the participants – thank you once again! [...]
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. [...]
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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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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