Creating one team that respects one another and enjoys coming to work — Business unit culture change at professional services firm
Annette Gray from Growth Coaching International was asked to help a management team in a professional services firm in Sydney Australia during 2011 change their culture by becoming more respectful of their colleagues and a happier place to work.
Using SF to Create Whole System Change in Social Care
The Client wished to implement the Government’s vision of putting clients with social care needs in control of services to maintain their independence and build capacity in the community to meet low level needs.
Solution Focused Workshops for Small Teams
Our Team Workshops to date have had an immediate impact. A sense of hope and positivity can be felt amongst the team (Client), that wasn’t there before the workshops.
I bring over 25 years’ experience as a facilitator, consultant, leadership coach and speaker, developing leaders at all levels to use a coaching approach in all their conversations. I am passionate about coaching and applying Solution Focus approaches in everyday interactions with experience in many industry sectors, including – Construction, Education, Pharmaceutical, Financial Services and Government. I have been in learning and development and organisational development roles in the finance sector where I led successful culture wide programs for major firms. I have also worked in a consulting capacity for the last 16 years with a global Coaching Training organisation.
Carey Glass is a Managment Consultant and Organisational Psychologist. Her business “Change With Ease” reflects the miracle that happens when organisation move away from problem-focused approaches.
She has brought SF to all areas of corporate and public sector life in the UK, from strategy, to performance management, to occupational health and safety, to culture, coaching and complexity helping create far-reaching change iwht ease.
She has published case studies describing the transformation that SF brings to organisational outcomes and is excited to now be bringing the benefits of SF to Australian orgnanisations.
Dion Sing brings over a decade of research, leadership, and hands-on experience applying Solution Focus in complex environments. He is President of the Australasian Solution Focused Association, co-host of the Toward Solutions podcast, and author of The Solution-Focused Supervision Handbook. As a consultant, supervisor, trainer, and coach, Dion helps individuals and organisations strengthen supervision, develop leadership capability, and embed Solution Focused approaches across systems and teams.
Douglas has more than two decades of project management experience in leading large-scale projects in manufacturing factories start-ups, expansions, constructions, relocations and M&A integration. He believes that communication and using Solution Focus principles are the essential skills to lead projects effectively.
Fiona Turner is working in education at Catholic Education Melbourne on a large-scale project.
As Product Owner, eLearn, Fiona works with teams delivering enterprise technologies to schools in Victoria. Her role involves liaising with school personnel and project teams to provide contemporary learning technologies for teachers to improve student learning.
Previously, Fiona had worked as a curriculum coordinator and teacher in primary schools in Melbourne. Fiona is an accredited coach with Growth Coaching International and has a certificate in Solution Focus Coaching.
Following a long and distinguished Air Force career of more than thirty years, John Teager transitioned seamlessly into defence industry and became managing director of an Australian subsidiary of an international prime. After enjoying ten years of significant success in the commercial world, John repatriated to his home town of Adelaide and established his own business – Open Mind Thinking – which helps company executives and their teams to be solutions focused, to have constructive conversations, to embrace the infinite nature of business and to develop strategies to get and stay ahead