Solution-Focused Manager, The

An essential resource for learning how to coach your staff to increase their competence!

In this immensely practical book, Robert Manthei and Ian Brooks offer sensible, straightforward suggestions for helping managers to become positive, solution-focused coaches in their workplace. Solution-focused management is derived from the same basic principles as Appreciative Inquiry, and has been proven to be highly effective as a means of creating 'learning leaders' and leader-coaches who can increase the capability of their people, increase their ability to solve problems for themselves and help make their workplaces more productive and meaningful.

Step-by-step, the authors show readers how to:

• build a vision for resolving problems
• focus on solutions and help people move forward
• catch people doing something well
• then help them build on what is already working
• help people use 'uncommon-sense' to break patterns of unsuccessful behaviour
• deal with a range of workplace situations.