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Last two early bird places available for SOL World 2013

Dear SF colleagues and friends.As you may know we offered 20 more places at the early bird price for those who had wanted to see the full programme for SOL World 2013 (May 14 - 17) before booking.We would like to announce that we have just two places left at the lower price.  Once the two places are sold out or starting Monday, 15 April, the full price will be in force.So if you have not booked yet, book now at…See More
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Solve Problems More Easily (Or “A Tale of Two Meetings)

“Where a minute before a handful of tech guys could agree on almost nothing, it took us only five minutes to identify the future perfect on which we all agreed.” Niklas Tiger. Managing Director of Hi5, Sweden.How many meetings have you been in where you have tried to tackle a problem in a team and it just kept going round in circles?The following is a true story related by Niklas Tiger, Managing Director of Hi5, an IT organisation in Sweden that provides outsourced IT services to customers over…See More
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John Brooker commented on Annie Bordeleau's event 'SOL2013: Better focus - Better change.'
"Looking forward to meeting you all again in Bad Pyrmont. If you are one of the many that are coming along and have not indiciated that on this page, please do!"
Feb 12
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SOL2013: Better focus - Better change. at Steigenberger Hotel in Bad Pyrmont - Germany

May 14, 2013 at 6pm to May 17, 2013 at 1pm
We hope you will join us in May 2013 for the 12th SOL conference.  The event is organized by an international team devoted to creating an atmosphere of stimulating conversations. We look forward to meeting you and your clients in our idyllic venue in Bad Pyrmont!See More
Feb 12
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John Brooker replied to Owen Charnley's discussion Dementia
"Owen. Although it is not SF, when I did my Mind Mapping qualification with Tony Buzan, one of the topics of conversation was how useful Mind Maps were for people with early stage dementia. They put them round the house to provide instruction 9e.g.…"
Sep 19, 2012
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Uncovering Treasure: Influencing with Solution Focus - Report on SFCT UK Chapter call

Uncovering Treasure: Influencing with Solution FocusRecently we had an SFCT UK call discussion on an article by Loraine Kennedy and Colin Coombs entitled “Uncovering Treasure: Influencing with Solution Focus.” This was printed in InterAction Volume 3 Number 2. We suggest you read this if you have not already done so.Loraine pointed out that the article was a workshop paper and that it captured the learning from 3 workshops of 2 hours duration on the topic of Influencing Others.Reason for…See More
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John Brooker commented on Ivan Webb's blog post Solution Focus Checklist
"Just had a thought. Instead of the Yes / No responses, could you scale this?"
Feb 14, 2012
John Brooker commented on Ivan Webb's blog post Solution Focus Checklist
"Thanks for posting this here Ivan. Much appreciated. John"
Feb 14, 2012

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What is your connection to Solution Focused Work (based on Insoo Kim Berg and Steve de Shazer at BFTC Milwaukee and others)?
Hi, I have used SF in my facilitation (or team coaching for our continental colleagues :-) ) for around four years. I have had 100% success with it so far and am still learning. I am particularly interested in linking SF with Creative Problem Solving models (what I call Flexible Thinking)... and also selling.

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Last two early bird places available for SOL World 2013

Dear SF colleagues and friends.

As you may know we offered 20 more places at the early bird price for those who had wanted to see the full programme for SOL World 2013 (May 14 - 17) before booking.

We would like to announce that we have just two places left at the lower price.  Once the two places are sold out or starting Monday, 15 April, the full price will be in force.

So if you have not booked yet, book now at…

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Posted on April 9, 2013 at 16:48

Solve Problems More Easily (Or “A Tale of Two Meetings)

“Where a minute before a handful of tech guys could agree on almost nothing, it took us only five minutes to identify the future perfect on which we all agreed.” Niklas Tiger. Managing Director of Hi5, Sweden.

How many meetings have you been in where you have tried to tackle a problem in a team and it just kept going round in circles?

The following is a true story related by Niklas Tiger, Managing Director of Hi5, an IT organisation in Sweden that provides outsourced IT…

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Posted on February 13, 2013 at 7:30

Uncovering Treasure: Influencing with Solution Focus - Report on SFCT UK Chapter call

Uncovering Treasure: Influencing with Solution Focus

Recently we had an SFCT UK call discussion on an article by Loraine Kennedy and Colin Coombs entitled “Uncovering Treasure: Influencing with Solution Focus.” This was printed in InterAction Volume 3 Number 2. We suggest you read this if you have not already done so.

Loraine pointed out that the article was a workshop paper and that it captured the learning from 3 workshops of 2 hours duration on the topic of Influencing…

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Posted on April 20, 2012 at 17:11

Using SF for Conflict Resolution - Outcome of SFCT call

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Members of the SFCT UK and Ireland group discussed dealing with team conflict in an SF way. We referred to an article on this topic as a stimulus for discussion. Despite the low numbers the call enabled a valuable discussion.

Initial thoughts

The consensus was that, the typical SF approach is itself a very good way to deal with conflict. We (those on the call) thought that it is first important to enable people to air their concerns in a controlled way…

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Posted on September 8, 2011 at 13:50

Using Small Steps in a different way - Sprint Actions

“Great acts are made up of small deeds” - Lao Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

 

How do you effect change and maintain the operation…? 

 

Some of you may be the type of person to pull out a toolkit at first sight of a drawer knob dropping off or other domestic issue. To my discredit, I can always find something more interesting to do and many jobs build up before begrudgingly, I do them.

However, when our bathroom door hinge recently developed a very…

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Posted on August 31, 2011 at 12:19 — 3 Comments

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At 11:18 on May 29, 2011, Liselotte Baeijaert said…

OK..., it's a YES!!  ;)

 

At 10:07 on May 29, 2011, Liselotte Baeijaert said…
Hi John, my pleasure! looking forward to meet again, have great conversations, learn together and have fun, virtually and hopefully in Oxford!
At 13:14 on August 9, 2010, netti kutsche-roch said…
Hi John, thanks for your friend request (some days have passed since then as I haven´t been here for longer) - I enjoyed your last gorilla news, as the analogy between sf and your personal hotel night makes it very lively - great stuff! ; )
At 13:57 on January 28, 2009, David Taylor said…
Hi there. Just a wee reminder of the monthly gathering of SF'ers in London. Specifically at The Rising Sun, 38 Cloth Fair, EC1A 7JQ. Easily Googled.
The next meeting is at 6pm next Tuesday. Maybe see you there?
Best wishes, David
At 13:01 on September 30, 2008, David Taylor said…
Hi John.

You may (or may not...) know that I run a monthly group for SF'ers in London. So far it's mostly been members of the UKASFP but everyone is of course welcome.

It's held at a pub in Smithfields. To be precise at 6:00 pm next Tuesday 7th October at The Rising Sun, 38 Cloth Fair, London, EC1A 7JQ. Easily Googled.

The next month it'll be on the first Wednesday of the month, the next month the first Tuesday, and so on. But I'll be sending reminders before each gathering.

Really hope you can make it to one or another (or more!) and look forward to meeting you then.

With best wishes, David.
At 8:53 on August 16, 2008, Caroline Harvey said…
Hi there! Hope you had a fab time - I'm away from tomorrow for two weeks. Catch up then...lots in the off-ing!
Cheers Caroline
At 9:57 on May 20, 2008, John Brooker said…
And to you Sue!
At 23:25 on May 19, 2008, Sue Lickorish said…
Welcome aboard, John!
 
 
 

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Last two early bird places available for SOL World 2013

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Solve Problems More Easily (Or “A Tale of Two Meetings)

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You want to learn more about "Solution Focus"?

You prefer a "step by step" introduction instead to start with reading some voluminous books?

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Welcome to the SOLWorld Resources section.  This part of the site features information about the SOLWorld network, our past events and materials from our previous website.  It will take some time to update all the information, so thanks for your patience. 

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