Episode 78: Solutions-focused facilitation with Paul Z Jackson and Janine Waldman
Today I’m calling on the northern hemisphere, and the UK in particular and chatting to Janine Waldman and Paul Z Jackson from The Solutions Focus.
Today I’m calling on the northern hemisphere, and the UK in particular and chatting to Janine Waldman and Paul Z Jackson from The Solutions Focus.
These two are master facilitators, you will pick that up in this conversation. You may also pick up in the conversation that I was in awe of them, considering their incredibly vast experience, the clients they’ve worked with, where they’ve travelled and taken their facilitation gear, and how at ease they are with facilitation - it sounds like it comes to them as second nature.
Together, they’re the power-house behind The Solutions Focus, which is a pragmatic and positive methodology to help improve communications for individuals, teams and organisations. The Solutions Focus is used by professional coaches, leaders, managers and consultants worldwide to help lead others to their desired results; or as a way of creating respectful and lasting change.
About our guests: Janine Waldman and Paul Z Jackson
Janine Waldman is a leader in the application of Solutions Focus in the UK and around the world. As an organisational development consultant, coach, facilitator and author with three decades of experience, she designs and leads learning, development and change initiatives that deliver transformative results.
She has held senior HRD positions in UK and New Zealand multinationals, she has a Master’s Degree in Industrial Relations and HR management from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). She is a frequent contributor to management journals, keynote speaker at international conferences, and guest presents on trending topics at business schools, most recently on Building Resilience at the London Business School.
Janine is co-author of ‘Positively Speaking: The Art of Constructive Conversations with a Solutions Focus’ and ‘The Resilience Pocketbook’.
Paul Z Jackson brings out the best in people as a facilitator, coach, and trainer of trainers and facilitators. He draws on his experiences in journalism, comedy production and the BBC to design and deliver impactful, story-rich events that connect directly to the needs of the participants.
With a Masters of Arts from Oxford University, he is co-author of the ground-breaking book, The Solutions Focus – Making Coaching and Change SIMPLE, He’s also the author of other books including Impro Learning, 58½ Ways To Improvise In Training, The Inspirational Trainer, The Resilience Pocketbook and Easy.
Paul has trained more than 1,000 coaches in the solutions-focused approach and coaches senior executives and police officers.
Learn from Janine Waldman and Paul Z Jackson in Australia (November, 2019)
For the listeners in Australia, Janine and Paul will touring down under later this year and visiting Perth, Melbourne and Brisbane in November this year, so if you love what they do, check out their tour details at solutionsfocuscoaching.live.