What is the basic philosophy and approach that RESULTS uses in Consulting, Training, Coaching, & Advising?
We incorporate a variety of concepts, models and principles drawn from the behavioral sciences, management literature, spiritual traditions and/or the arts and humanities. We use an appreciative approach which explores what is right, what is working, what is wanted, and what is needed to get there. We also explore what has not been working as a vehicle for learning. Using an appreciative approach, the RESULTS models constructive communication skills and methods the individual or team can utilize to enhance personal communication effectiveness. The appreciative approach incorporates discovery-based inquiry, proactive (as opposed to reactive) ways of managing personal opportunities and challenges, constructive framing of observations and feedback in order to elicit the most positive responses from others, and envisioning success as contrasted to being problem focused. The appreciative approach is simple to understand and employ, but its effects in harnessing possibility thinking and goal
