Corporate Solutions

Program Synopsis:

The roller coaster ride of change these days has shattered the traditional organizational structure. Spawned are self-directed work teams, increased spans of control and the need to do more with less.

Do you know what motivates your team members? Solution Circle for TEAMs helps you to build a new foundation with your employees – one that is based on self-responsibility and self-accountability. You’ll learn why people do what they do …..how to adjust your style for effective leadership…and how to apply the Steps in the Solution Circle to derive solutions to complex issues.

Solution Circle for TEAMs is a HOW TO workshop. You’ll learn how to coach and facilitate with a style that motivates people to do their best. It is based on a unique dialogue in action. 50% of the workshop time is spent practicing what you learn and mapping solutions to your workplace challenges. You’ll walk away with tools and materials that will help you practice your coaching long after the workshop.

Program Objectives:

At the end of the program, participants will be able to:

• Apply the principles of the Solution Circle to develop high impact teams
• Lead project teams to work consistently in a result oriented fashion right from the start
• Leverage organizational change and chaos
• Strengthen relationships and minimize performance issues
• Enhance communications and achieve life-work balance
• Develop the talent of new or seasoned leaders

Learning Outcome:

Solution Circle for TEAMs presents a paradigm shift when it comes to working with groups. It supports teams in finding a way out of complex and tense situations; resolve conflicts and deal with unnecessary tension in the team or between groups.

The workshop is highly interactive and utilizes a variety of methods and tools to maximize learning. For example:

• Participants bring real-life challenges into the workshop and solutions/action mapping take place in a supportive environment.
• Participants will learn how to lead and be coached on the process of solutions surfing including managing hot spots and finding exceptions.

Participants can expect to leave the program not only aware of the possibilities of the solution-focused approach but also with an enhanced sense of their own and their team’s possibilities. It is expected that participants will be able to use the solution-focused skills immediately.

Course Coverage:

1. Four Basic Principles – Focusing on solutions, building on success, illuminating resources, finding new perspectives
2. The Solution Circle – 8 Step Dance – Preparing the ground, expectations and goals, hot spots, highlights, future perfect, scaling dance, small steps, personal mission
3. A Look Into The Tool Box – Solution finding questions, pausing for reflection, silence and attentive awareness, illuminating small successes
4. Keeping Things Going – celebrating progress, solution surfing, change and development, structure of team coaching, The Reflecting Team process and 5 Questions Every Leader Must Ask.
5. Dealing With Strong Personalities – staying in conversation, handling resistance, tolerance, ‘know it all’
6. Conclusion – Recaps key learning gained from the workshop and takes away an action plan for immediate implementation back at work.

• Target Audience: Anyone leading teams in a digital workplace
• Group Size: 10 – 15 pax
• Duration: 2 Days
• Training Format: Solution Circle for TEAMs is a modular learning workshop that focuses on building solution-focused skills and competencies to enable you to focus your energy and your time to developing solutions in the everyday life of the team.

Solution Focused Approach to Career/Transition Coaching

Program Synopsis:

The aim of this module is to contextualize the solution-focused method in the real-life practice of career coaching, ranging from new hire to the executive level. Participants will have an opportunity to learn about current practices in the career coaching field, share relevant coaching experiences with others and practice helpful interventions. As always in the solution-focused method, emphasis is on mobilizing the client’s internal resources towards an explicit purpose: in this case, attaining satisfaction and meaning through paid work. Particular attention in this module is given to insight gathering through experience: learning through working and work-related activities.

Career Coaching Card sort activities will be used to help participants identify their preferred skills, motivators, values, career interests and personal constraints. As well, participants learn to play the role of a career coach and will be equipped with a set of career coaching tool kit.

Program Objectives:

At the end of the program, participants will be able to:

• Change their attitude from employer dependency to career self-reliance.
• Compile a record of their primary wants, preferred skills, motivated interests, core values and job role content preferences.
• Sort out their real from their perceived constraints in achieving work life goals.
• Write a detailed Career Action Step Proposal with strategies to address their realities and concerns.
• Work out alternative options for their career direction.
• Compile a resume or portfolio ready to help implement their chosen career action step.
• Connect their personal goals to opportunities and resources around them.

Learning Outcome:

1. Discovery Stage – Self Assessment, clarification, employment experiences, preferences and lifestyle considerations.
2. Analysis Stage – Identifying transferable skills, career requirements, lifestyle integration and constraints.
3. Opportunity Awareness – Gathering information, reality testing, networking and selecting career action(s) options.
4. Decision Learning – Evaluating Career Action Options, Decide on Goals and Prepare Career Action Step Proposal.
5. Transition Stage – Developing strategies for success, career action preparation and review of completed career action steps.

Career Coaching is appropriate in many different circumstances, and participants will benefit from enriching or discovering more about their career direction. They will pause, reflect and re-establish where they really want to go in their life journey and clarify the meaning of self and work in their lives.

Course Coverage:

Building on Strengths and Empowering People for Success in Organizations

A positive revolution is quietly spreading through the world of organizational and personal change. Across the globe coaches, leaders, managers and trainers are discovering the positive power of Solution Focused Leadership Coaching.

Applying a strengths-based perspective using the “Solution Focused” approach offers a powerful yet subtle way to positive change. It takes you beyond outmoded ideas, replacing over–complicated theories and methods with a dynamic, intensely practical approach that provides the positive outcomes that organizations crave, along with fresh learning every time. The Solution Focused approach is in the foreground of all these developments, a driving force in the worldwide community of practitioners. BRIEF Academy is leading the way with this SIMPLE Process to Positive Change.

We offer you a set of accessible practical skills that work by drawing know-how, resources, success stories and ideas for action from those involved.

This two-day professional course is for Managers, Leaders, Members of Technical Staff and HR Practitioners and is aimed at increasing their own strengths and competencies as well as their staff.

Participants will learn systematic and effective user-friendly tools for helping employees harness and build on their strengths. The course will offer opportunities for participants to explore their own leadership and management dilemmas and challenges. Participants will gain practical methods for working with staff in ways that enhance their sense of competence and effectiveness.

Program Objectives:

At the end of the program, participants will be able to:

• Understand and develop leadership characteristics that help build high performing teams.
• Adopt a solution-focused mindset to help employees grow and develop.
• Uncover the hidden strengths of employees.
• Build employee motivation, confidence and competence through performance feedback.
• Know how to handle difficult situations – conundrums.
• Conduct effective goal setting sessions
• Coach for improving job performance
• Create an action plan to monitor the use of these skills in the workplace

Program Outline:

Solution Focused Leadership Coaching is a modular learning workshop that includes 2 days of action learning activities. This workshop focuses on building solution-focused coaching skills and competencies. A optional follow-up team coaching session 4 to 6 weeks later will help participants to refine their skills and learn additional group coaching techniques.

Key modules include:

• Dialogic Orientation Quadrant, DOQ
• Leadership in a High Performance Organization
• Building A Coaching Relationship
• Solution-Focused BRIEF Model
• Coaching through Change
• Feedback and Feed Forward
• Team Coaching – 5 Questions Every Leader Must Ask & Reflecting Team

Participants can expect to leave the program not only aware of the possibilities of the solution-focused approach but also with an enhanced sense of their own and their team’s possibilities. It is expected that participants will be able to use the solution-focused coaching skills immediately.

Course Coverage:

1. Leadership in a High Performance Organization – ‘Good to Great’ : attributes of high performing great leaders – Shield Exercise.
2. Building A Coaching Relationship – Motivating your employees/colleagues effectively and sustainably: Creating Coachable Moments, Reframing and Reflecting Skills
3. Solution-Focused BRIEF Model – Problem-solving vs solution building. Scaling questions. Useful language skills. Take away coaching tools and a coaching model for immediate transfer of learning at your work place.
4. Coaching Conundrums – Handling difficult coaching situations, Different styles of coaching. Strong Coaching vs Nice Coaching and Coaching through Change.
5. Feedback and Feed Forward – Revealing blind spots, Raising Awareness and Generating Responsibilities.
6. Five Questions Every Leader Must Ask – Focuses the team’s attention forward – to possibilities and solutions instead of backward to failures, blaming and excuses. Reflecting Team format.
7. Conclusion – Recaps key learning gained from the workshop and takes away an action plan for immediate implementation back at work.

• Target Audience: Leaders, Managers, Senior Members of Technical Staff & HR Practitioners
• Group Size: 18 – 20 pax
• Duration: 2 Days plus Follow-up Team Coaching (4-6 weeks later)
• Training Format: The workshop is highly interactive and utilizes a variety of methods and tools to maximize learning. For example, individual and small-group exercises and discussions that are practical with participants actively engaged in their own workplace issues.