Category: Solutions-Focus

  • Procedures -VS- Habits: Whatever Works

    Procedures -VS- Habits: Whatever Works

    Why do I talk about procedures? Why not habits? Here’s why: There’s what it takes to do the thing. There’s what it takes to form the habit around doing the thing. These are entirely different kinds of work. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, this checks out. Maybe habit language is not the thing that you need.

  • Scaling for Momentum: Five Steps to Your Next Step

    Scaling for Momentum: Five Steps to Your Next Step

    *Not* scaling a mountain ⛰️ or scaling a startup 📈. Solutions-focused scaling is *way easier.* What Is Scaling? Scaling is a simple, structured method to: Take stock of your present situation, See what’s working, Check this against what you want in the future, and Go from there. –> I run through this step-by-step below below. Scaling…

  • Nine Flavours of Solutions-Focused Mindset + One Problem-Focused Gem

    Nine Flavours of Solutions-Focused Mindset + One Problem-Focused Gem

    People ask me what solutions-focus *is* exactly.  “What’s that about? What do you really do? Isn’t this just another flavour of coaching?”  In order to respond to this line of questioning, I had to think back over my learning and career. I can see that solutions-focus is an outlier theme that I was drawn to…