In order to submit a ‘piece of work’ for review by two SFCT reviewers you must be a member or associate member of SFTC. As a rich learning experience for both candidates and reviewers the review will be a terrific way of sharing valuable resources amongst members.  It will also provide a useful marketing tool for individual practitioners.

In considering ‘pieces of work’, the reviewer is aided by a list of observable clues to look for when thinking about whether something has been done in an SF way. In submitting work for review, candidates provide a commentary describing their thinking and explaining what makes the work qualify as SF. Their clients are asked to answer questions about how helpful the ‘piece of work’ was for them. Summaries of successful submissions will be available on the web site.

Click here for a list of available languages for reviews

Here are two interesting downloads of experiences with the review process:
An account of what it is like to be reviewied by Alan Kay
An account of what it is like to be a reviewer by Shaun Lincoln

Webcast on the review process

The field of SF use in organisations is growing globally, as is the SF community supporting the exchange of knowledge and good practice in organisations. One of the reasons why the Association for the Quality Development of SF Consulting & Training (SFCT) was created is to be able to say something about standards of SF practice.

How do we understand the ‘quality’ of SF use in organisational work? There is no guarantee of quality if we only know a professional’s formal background, educational level or personal reputation. Being simple and solution focused, we prefer to ask people to demonstrate with detailed evidence what they do. Hence, the SFCT review process looks at what you do and how you do it rather than your status and background. 

SFCT reviews ‘pieces of work’ rather than individuals. This respects the idea that every case is different and avoids specifying a syllabus or methodology, etc. It reviews the work, not the individual.