Un collega svizzero, Hans Peter Korn, coach e fondatore di KORN AG, ha sviluppato il metodo SolutionStage(R) per il cambiamento organizzativo.
Questa è la mia esperienza diretta e il feedback dei partecipanti.
Offre
spazio per esplorare fisicamente e linguisticamente soluzioni nuove:
come su un palcoscenico si provano soluzioni “realistiche” di ambienti
organizzativi, attraverso l’approccio Solution Oriented. In questo modo
si possono testare nuove versioni di prodotti strategici o servizi e
come essi saranno accettati dai clienti nel futuro.
Il SolutionStage® è stato molto utile, soprattutto nel debriefing: domande come “Per andare meglio le cose, cosa avresti voluto che l’altro Ti dicesse?” – sono state realmente orientate alla Soluzione nello stile Berg!
English Version
For
my work I have drawn inspiration from SolutionStage®, a method
developed by Hans Peter Korn based on Insoo Kim Berg’s Solution Focused
approach and on Moreno’s psychodrama.
I used it at a workshop
for Bank Directors whose assignment was to work on the Goals of their
Branches and on motivating Agency staff.
Following Hans, I prepared
an outline for the work, namely a role-play. I usually prepare the role
plays ahead of time with special emphasis on preparing well-defined
roles for the role players, whereas with SolutionStage® the players
have to improvise and improvisation allows for either of two situations:
1) the players may refer to real situations that they have experienced in the past;
and,
2)
since they have to improvise, the players are under pressure to be
creative and this induces them to make special efforts in drawing on
their internal resources that are not explicitly “prompted” by the
trainer.
This working method frees the participants and the setting
from any temptation to “adapt” to a pre-established program and to
pre-defined techniques.
This was the conclusive part of three days
of good work during which we focused on making well formed goals, on
motivation and on emotional awareness. For each of these lines of work
we used a distinct technical and operational frame of reference, namely
Neuro-Linguistic Programming for a “good definition” of the goals, NPL
again for motivation, and Edward De Bono’s “Six Hats” exercise, using
only where necessary rapid “corporate counseling” interventions for
emotional awareness,. And finally, I presented a case story
showing how staff motivation is useful in order to achieve the goals of
the Branch together.
Solution Stage® proved to be very
useful, especially for debriefing: questions like “In order to
improve things, what would you have liked to hear?” were really
Solution oriented according to Berg’s style!
And then, once again I
noticed how important it is at all times to experience empathy with the
people on “Stage”; indeed, in one instance, after having asked one
player (staff member) the above question, also the person playing the
“director” said “I too would like to be asked a question and have my
say!” Putting ourselves on stage means exposing ourselves, and
exposing our emotions means revealing ourselves, being our true selves
like children who are playing … and here, in the debriefing, the
“child” wanted to be valued … the emotion needed to be valued by the
woman who had “revealed” herself completely before a group where men
were the majority. The latter were really fascinated by the flexibility
and efficacy of their female colleague.
Solution Stage® confirmed
the efficacy of a number of theoretical-practical frames of reference
(Moreno, Insoo Kim Berg), as I integrated it with other specific frames
of reference: I was constantly thinking of Virginia Satir … and at a
given point I really believed I was in a skits (similar to a
psychodrama but more rapid and essential) that I saw her use at a
workshop. She has taught me to simultaneously use several “levels of
experience”, and Solution Stage® was an excellent and well-designed
grid that led us all together towards our results, including our
emotions!