There are many ways to do fine work. Sometimes this involves the pleasure of helping people to get positive results. Different people follow this approach in different ways.
They may do this as educators, medics, counsellors, specialists or in another role. It can involve helping people to have positive experiences and also passing on tools they can use to shape a positive future.
People who take this approach may get the helper’s high but their main aim is to help other people. The following section looks at three ways that people may take these steps. You will, of course, have your own approach to helping people to achieve positive results.
The Encourager’s Approach
People who are encouragers love to give to others and help them to achieve success. Some do this in their personal life, some do it their professional life. Let’s look at those who do it in their work.
Good encouragers create a positive environment in which a person feels at ease and able to explore their goals. They then use their experience to encourage, educate and enable the person to achieve their picture of success.
The Solutions-Focused
Therapist’s Approach
People who take this approach encourage a person to build on their inner resources, set goals and shape a positive future. Here is a description of this approach from the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy website.
Solution-focused brief therapy is a short-term therapy which focuses on setting goals and working out how to achieve them. It’s about the future rather than the past and promotes positive change by encouraging you to focus on what you can do, rather than what you can’t.
The Specialist’s Approach
People who take this approach focus on a specific specialism that can help people to achieve their goals. They may do this when working as a subject matter expert, trusted advisor, technical specialist or in another professional role.
Such specialists start by clarifying people’s challenges or goals. They then use their expertise to help people to solve problems, follow strategies that work and achieve success. They sometimes also pass on knowledge that helps people to shape a positive future.
Imagine that you want to follow elements of this approach in your own life or work. What may be the specific activity where you get pleasure from helping people to achieve positive results? How can you continue to follow this in your own way?
If you wish, try tackling the exercise on this theme. This invites you to complete the following sentences.
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