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Solution-Focused Strategies in the Workplace: <\/b><\/p>\n

The Mad Dash<\/b><\/p>\n

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RICK METRICK<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Rick Metrick, a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) has been in private practice for thirty years. For the past twenty years, he has served as founder and director of Total Life Counseling in Beckley, West Virginia. He has authored four books and is the pastor of a local church in his community. He and his wife Karen are the proud parents of five children and twelve grandchildren. You can visit his website at www.TLCWV.com.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/i><\/b>Time of the Mad Atom<\/b>
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This is the age
Of the half-read page.
And the quick hash
And the mad dash.<\/p>\n

The bright night
With the nerves tight.
The plane hop
With the brief stop.<\/p>\n

The lamp tan
In a short span
The Big Shot
In a good spot.<\/p>\n

And the brain strain
The heart pain.
And the cat naps
Till the spring snaps–<\/p>\n

And the fun\u2019s done!<\/p>\n

Sounds like an accurate description of twenty-first century life!\u00a0 You might be surprised to know it was first published in <\/span>The Saturday Evening Post<\/span> under the title \u201cTime of the Mad Atom\u201d in 1949.\u00a0 That\u2019s right, seventy years ago. Some things never change.\u00a0 My guess is your life is proof.<\/span><\/p>\n

The workplace is constantly evolving, and employees are expected to seamlessly adapt.\u00a0 Although change is inevitable, it is not always welcomed. Changes at the workplace affect more than our work lives. They impact our families, self-care, relationships and much more.<\/span><\/p>\n

Blindsided<\/b><\/h4>\n

The demands of being a Staff Operations Officer were increasing and Anthony was in the last year of his five-year contract.\u00a0 He felt threatened by internal competition. The Directorate of Operations (DO) office demanded creative solutions to increasingly complex operational problems.\u00a0 He was spending more and more time overseas and family life was suffering. Exercise, fishing and Saturday evening with friends were a faint memory. The spring of Anthony\u2019s mad dash was about to snap.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Nicole considered herself blessed with a supportive supervisor and \u201cthe perfect job.\u201d\u00a0 However, six months ago she was blindsided by her boss\u2019s promotion and replaced by a less supportive more confrontational boss.\u00a0 Her job description was quickly changed for which she was overqualified and underappreciated. Discontent and unfulfilled, she felt trapped and hopeless.\u00a0 Nicole\u2019s spring snapped and she found herself in the ER with chest pains. An intern told Nicole that her ECG was unremarkable and suggested she might be having panic attacks, gave her the name of a local therapist and a prescription for Xanax.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Success cannot be built on a foundation of past failures.<\/span><\/p>\n

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RICK METRICK<\/p>\n

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Solution-Focused Strategies<\/b><\/h4>\n

Empathic listening and emotional support would do little good for either Anthony or Nicole.\u00a0 They needed more, solution-focused interventions. What follows is a Strength-Based and Solution-Focused<\/span>1<\/span> strategy.<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. The first and most important step in SFBT is <\/span>Identifying Your Strengths<\/b>.\u00a0 In order to advance through adversity, Anthony and Nicole would need to identify, appreciate and implement their strengths.\u00a0 Both were aware of the many excellent and readily accessible inventories used to assist employees in discovering their gifts.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Anthony chose the CliftonStrengths<\/span>2<\/span> assessment to identify strengths in four distinct domains (strategic thinking, relationship building, influencing and executing).\u00a0 Of the 34 themes on the StrengthFinder, Thomas discovered that his top five strengths were Ideation (fascinated by ideas), Learner (a great desire to gain knowledge), Empathy (sensing and experiencing the feelings of others), Achiever (possessing great stamina and working hard) and Relator (excelling by working with people).\u00a0 He downloaded the Gallup app to further understand and sharpen his strengths.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Nicole chose to research the six domains of resiliency.\u00a0 After viewing a free demo, she chose to utilize Driven\u2019s<\/span>3<\/span> virtual coach to build resilience.\u00a0 Like the CliftomStrengths, Driven is scientifically researched and grouped into six domain specific factors that enable a person to advance despite adversity.\u00a0 After viewing a series of interactive videos and responding to insightful statements, Nicole discovered she had two strong domains–Vision (having a sense of purpose and a knowledge of what she wanted to achieve) and Reasoning (creative and innovative problem-solving skills, the ability to anticipate and plan).\u00a0 She also confirmed that Composure (regulating emotions and interpretation bias) was her greatest area of need. In time, she would learn to better manage her anxiety and people pleasing mindset.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Equipped with a working knowledge of their strengths, Andrew and Nicole were able to determine what they wanted to change about their current situations and how to use their strengths to improve their lives.<\/span><\/p>\n

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    1. The next step is <\/span>Exploring Past Successes<\/b>.\u00a0 An important component of Solution-Focused Therapy is remembering past successes.\u00a0 We tend to give an inordinate amount of attention to our miscues and minimize our achievements.\u00a0 Tomorrow\u2019s successes are based on exploring yesterday\u2019s successes today. \u201cWhat were your successes?\u201d\u00a0 \u201cWhat caused you to be successful?\u201d \u201cHow can you use past successes for future successes?\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Success cannot be built on a foundation of past failures. When it comes to past failures dwelling on the past destroys the present and delays the future.\u00a0 Andrew realized his natural lean towards failure-thinking. \u201cThings never go my way,\u201d \u201cI will never be good enough\u201d and \u201cThis is the worst thing ever,\u201d kept him from expanding, growing and self-care. As he reviewed his history of successes he realized that a success-mentality always preceded successful undertakings.\u00a0 After developing a list of \u201cStinkin Thinkin\u201d and another of \u201cSuccessful Thinkin,\u201d he promptly destroyed the first and carried the second wherever he went for review and a reminder that he held the key to successful maneuvering through the complexities of life.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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      1. A proper appraisal of current experience means <\/span>Discovering and Highlighting Exception Thinking<\/b>.\u00a0 When Nicole evaluated her typical 8-hour workday, she realized her frustrations were limited to two or less weekly interactions lasting no more than a total of 10 minutes.\u00a0 Her discovery was enlightening. She would no longer allow less than .5% of weekly interactions poison 99.5% of her work week.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        Rather than search exceptions to the rule, Anthony focused his attention on opportunities he had not but could have taken to create exceptions. His exception thinking was more futuristic and creative.\u00a0 He concluded that he compromised potential exercise and self-care time when overseas in the hotel lounge or vegging in his room mindlessly watching sporting events.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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        1. The Miracle Question and Scaling Questions help Facilitate a <\/span>Positive Vision for the Future<\/b>.\u00a0 The miracle question for Anthony was \u201cimagine when you go to sleep tonight a miracle happens and you wake up tomorrow deprogrammed.\u201d The beliefs \u201cthings never go my way,\u201d \u201cI will never be good enough\u201d and \u201cthis is the worst thing ever\u201d are erased from your mind. \u201cWhat would your life look life?\u201d\u00a0 He had never thought of his life in this way. The knowledge that his problems do not have to follow him into the future were freeing. Anthony realized that resolving his misbeliefs and the unpleasant emotions they stimulated was more important than his increasingly demanding work schedule. However, resolving misbeliefs and unpleasant emotions take time. He developed a way of measuring to know how he was making progress by using a scale of 1-10. Level 1 was the realization, he was there.\u00a0 He decided Level 2 would be consciously challenging his irrational beliefs when they arise. Levels 1-10 helped him to see his progress.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          The miracle question awakened hope in Nicole.\u00a0 The miracle she needed was no longer out of her control.\u00a0 Eventually, she moved from feeling victimized and helpless to being empowered.\u00a0 She discovered she had the power to change her beliefs and behaviors, which would positively impact her emotional state. What happened to her was not as powerful as how she processed it and responded to it. Nicole developed a way to scale the power of her emotions–both unpleasant and pleasant. She created a list of desirable and undesirable emotions. Every evening Nicole rated the power and prevalence of each emotion. She also scaled her ability to dispute the irrational belief of having to please others and coveting words of affirmation from her new superior.<\/span><\/p>\n

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          1. Compliments, Affirmations and Celebrations<\/b>.\u00a0 SFBT therapists aid the patient in celebrating their successes and encourage them to appreciate what they did differently that facilitated success. Neither Anthony nor Nicole chose therapy, but they did collaborate with significant others. These SOPs (Significant Other People) were encouraging, optimistic and celebrated their successes with compliments and affirmations.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

            The Spring does not Have to Snap<\/b><\/h4>\n

            Adversities stretch the springs of our lives, but they do not have to snap them.\u00a0 Identifying your strengths, exploring past successes, discovering and highlighting exception thinking, positive vision for the future and compliments, affirmations and celebrations work together to facilitate a resilient response to the adversities of life.\u00a0 One of the cryptic sayings in the Bible reads, \u201cmy strength is made perfect in weakness.\u201d<\/span> 4 <\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Anthony and Nicole would soon discover that their strengths become stronger through adversities.\u00a0 Solution-Focused Strategies acknowledge that obstacles have the potential of becoming opportunities for personal growth.<\/span><\/p>\n

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            1\u00a0 <\/span>Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT), also called Solution-Focused Therapy, Solution-Building Practice therapy was developed by Steve de Shazer (1940-2005), and Insoo Kim Berg (1934-2007) and their colleagues beginning in the late 1970\u2019s in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. As the name suggests, SFBT is future-focused, goal-directed, and focuses on solutions, rather than on the problems that brought clients to seek therapy (Institute for Solution-Focused Therapy).<\/span><\/p>\n

            2\u00a0 <\/span>You can take the CliftonStrengths Assessment (177 paired statements which you choose the one that describes you the best) and get your personalized results at <\/span>www.gallup.com<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

            3\u00a0 <\/span>Resilience uncovers your ability to be flexible, adaptive, optimistic, and learn from your experience to become stronger and thrive\u201d (<\/span>www.home.hellodriven.com<\/span><\/a>).\u00a0 The site and app allow for 24\/7 chat on demand and their AI is an amazing and complex logic that personalizes conversations that helps you achieve positive behavior changes.<\/span><\/p>\n

            4\u00a0 <\/span>2 Corinthians 12:9, Holy Bible. King James Version, 1611.<\/span><\/p>\n

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