Organisations seeking effective approaches to improve business performance and achieve bottom line results are increasingly turning to the science of Positive Psychology (PP) in the quest for new ‘keys’ to unlock individual and collective performance and activate ways that an organisation goes about achieving its goals.
The ‘keen client’ scenario presents an opportunity and risk for PP practitioners. Organisations hungry for action and interested in what PP could offer present a strong temptation for enthusiastic, well-intending practitioners to jump straight to action with their preferred interventions before adequately exploring organisational needs and systemic factors which will interact with success.
We contend that PP practitioners need to clearly understand an organisations strategic focus, current context and readiness for change before recommending interventions rather than simply implementing the popular or preferred approaches. Without this rigor, the field risks missing the mark and become another ill-fitting management fad.
This round table presentation will encourage PP consultants and practitioners to flip the consulting conversations from a product-centric push to a client focused and more nuanced, needs driven approach by using powerful questioning techniques to establish strategic context and current business focus and exploring the client’s appetite for change using The Transtheoretical Model of Change.