Your ability to solve problems can move you forward, keep you stagnant, or set you back. It all comes down to approach. By defining your abilities & those of others, you can ensure you match the right abilities to the business situation.
Why this is important...
- By cultivating these talents in a team environment, you will be able to deploy them as a competitive advantage.
- By choosing skills, instead of people, to lead and support one another, you can open the door to the best problem solving techniques for a given situation.
- By understanding how your own mind works, you will be able to learn additional skills in order to tackle issues from more than one perspective.
- By being proactive about problem solving, your team's ability to solve problem quickly, creatively and successfully becomes a means of strengthening your business.
This article will teach you how to consider the strengths & weaknesses of 6 different problem solving approaches. It also details 4 steps to make your team's problem solving strategy a competitive advantage.
**If there was a business problem to be solved by both you and your competition, who would be solving it with short-term fixes and who would be using the situation as a way to move the company forward?
Check it out & test how your own brain works. Are you Rational, Creative, Positive, Analytical, Absolute or Logical?
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Written by Lisa Woods, President & CEO ManagingAmericans.com
Lisa is a successful entrepreneur, world-class marketing strategist, dynamic business leader & author with more than 20 years experience leading, managing and driving growth in the corporate world. Today she provides Management Tools, Do-It-Yourself Training, and Business Assessments for small to mid size companies, Lisa utilizes her experience with integration techniques, organizational and cultural overhauls, financial turnarounds and strategic revitalization to help other companies succeed. Closing the gap between strategy and hierarchy through the use of effective communication skills, Lisa's techniques successfully develop employees into exceptional leaders, results driven managers and passionate team contributors that collectively exceed objectives.
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