Kirsten Dierolf has published a video-interview with me on her blog. We talk about how solutions focus can be seen to 50000 and a product of evolution. I will follow this interview with some some blogs on prospective memory and solutions focus later on. There is more on Kirstens website: check out video-interviews with Jim […]

It is often assumed that we give compliments and acknowledgement for the benifit of the reciever. But consider the other side of the coin: what does giving compliment do to you the person giving compliments. I would like to argue that giving professional compliments is as important for the giver as the reciever, but in […]

Nobody doubts the value in using compliments, acknowledgement and validation in solution focused work. But sometimes it doesn’t work as well as we would like. Not everyone in every situation responds well to compliments. It might feel or be experienced as tacky or patronising. Another problem with compliments is that they are short-range. The compliment […]