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GLO 410: Systems Thinking: Chapter 11: Solution Focus
This guide for Systems Thinking provides students with links to references from the textbook Systems Concepts in Action in addition to other resources to help develop systemic thinkers.
Solution Focus
Solution Focus is an approach to positive change within people, teams, or organizations. Focusing on solutions is fundamentally different from conventional approaches to problem solving that are based on the belief that focusing on problems (by analyzing, reacting to, and talking about them) is the best way to solve them. It sidesteps the often futile search for the causes of problems and heads straight for solutions.
(from McKergow, M. "How to change everything by changing as little as possible," https://sfwork.com/solutions-focus)
eBooks/ Articles
- Appreciative Inquiry
Cooperrider, David. 1999. German-language source. - Locating the Energy for Change: An Introduction to Appreciative Inquiry
Elliott, Charles. 1999. The purpose of this book is for "readers to both understand and feel what appreciative inquiry
is and how it can be used to change organizations and communities." - The Solutions Focus: The Simple Way to Positive Change
Jackson, Paul Z. McKergow, Mark. 2002. "Traditional approaches to problem-solving assume a cause and effect between problems and solutions. The Solutions Focus outlines a different way to attain goals that focuses on solutions not problems; the future not the past; and what to do as opposed to who to blame."
Brief Intro to Solution Focus
Web Resources
- Centre for Solutions Focus at Work
"Many people around the world have been inspired by Mark's developments of Host Leadership, Solutions Focus and Accelerated Learning - all presented with his inimitable blend of scientific rigour and performance pizzaz." - Positive Deviance Initiative
The Positive Deviance approach is an asset-based, problem-solving, and community-driven approach that enables the community to discover these successful behaviors and strategies and develop a plan of action to promote their adoption by all concerned. - SOLworldSolution Focused practice is transforming coaching, consulting, managing and leading in organisations all over the world.
- Solution Focused Thinking
Barry WInbolt. Discusses the history and application of "Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)."
