Mark McKergow and Jacqui-Von-Cziffra-Bergs
Review by Mark McKergow This very welcome addition to the international Solution Focused bookshelf is a collection about SF applications in Africa. The book is particularly useful in engaging with the particular contexts and traditions of Southern Africa and showing how SF practice connects with these to give a good ‘fit’ in this part of the world.
Part of the international spread of SF work in recent years has been the appearance of books and collections about people using the SF approach in different parts of the world. Solution Focused Practice in Asia, edited by Debbie and Dave Hogan, Jane Tuomola and Alan Yeo appeared in 2016, and Yasuteru Aoki has been connecting and publishing organisational work in Japan for a decade. The European Brief Therapy Association just released a collection (Making Waves: Solution Focused Practice in Europe edited by Tomas Switek, Boyan Strahilov and Plamen Panayotov) celebrating 25 years of SF practice in Europe.
ATeam Tease: a one and a half day team motivation workshop with a South African hair salon, building team relationships between stylists and proprietors
I have over 25 years’ experience as a registered clinical psychologist, executive coach (ICF-PCC) and OD practitioner.
Previously I held senior Marketing, OD and Consulting roles in corporate business, SME’s and consultancies in the UK and South Africa and latterly I have had my base in Singapore, for the past 14 years. I have worked on both large and
small scale change, transformation and mergers and acquisitions.
My expertise and passion lead me to bring about positive change in complex and messy situations. I have contributed to management journals, newsletters and magazines and have been a contributing author to books on Adoption, Coaching and SF in Asia.
Stanus Cloete has 30 years of life coaching experience and started doing business coaching in November 2008 when he established Agosolf Coaching. He studied with SF Work in the UK during 2009 and obtained his SFPro Certificate with Mark McKergow and Jenny Clark of SF Work. He is a member of SOLWorld as well as COMENSA (Coaches and Mentors of South Africa).
Reviewed piece of SF work ATeam Tease: a one and a half day team motivation workshop with a South African hair salon, building team relationships between stylists and proprietors – July 2010 At the end of 2009 I was contacted by the proprietor and manager of two hair salons with the request for a team motivation workshop for their hair stylists. The prioprietor is a patent lawyer and the manager a hair stylist. She manages both salons. They provide an upmarket hair salon for men although they have many female customers.