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How Team Leaders Can Improve Problem Solving Skills With a Clear Process

Great Results Team Building

Fishbone Diagram: The Fishbone Diagram, also known as the Cause-and-Effect Diagram, is a visual tool that helps identify potential causes by categorizing them into different branches. The main categories typically include people, process, equipment, materials, environment, and management.

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Vital Keys to Leading a Fast, Flexible, and Agile Organization

The Practical Leader

Line Management Led. Reactive Management, and Search for Guilty/Weaknesses. Reactive Management, and Search for Guilty/Weaknesses. Proactive Root Cause Analysis and Search for Systemic Changes/Strengths. Measurement and Performance Management Gaming. Experts/Specialist Led. Integrated/Interconnected.

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What Accounts for the Accountability Mess?

The Practical Leader

Many of us have been lashed with the accountability whip wielded by a blundering manager playing “gotcha games.” Swinging the Performance Management Stick What’s your experience with performance reviews? Theory X managers use performance management ratings to “hold people accountable.”

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10 Things I Learned from a Training Program That I Still Use Today

Great Leadership By Dan

?????. Kodak European Management Development Program. How to do a root cause analysis and a structured process for making decisions. It’s an interesting exercise in that it made me think about if I was designing a training curriculum for managers, what skills would be the most important to include? How to listen.

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Are These Systems Serving or Subverting Organization Results?

The Practical Leader

“The 85/15 Rule” emerged from decades of root cause analysis of service/quality breakdowns. About 85% of the time the fault is caused by the system, processes, structure, or practices of the organization. Wholistic approaches focus on interconnections and cause-and-effect relationships.

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Leadership Lessons From The Seven Arts Of Change

Eric Jacobson

Listening is the root of collaboration, root-cause analysis, and effective teamwork. Listening : Organizations that evidence compassion listen to each other in order to understand and connect to more effective outcomes, not in order to place blame or assert their own way of doing things.

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Corrective Action Program Best Practice 2 – Causal Analyses

Strategy Driven

For over twenty years, he has served as trusted advisor to executives and managers at dozens of Fortune 500 and smaller companies in the areas of management effectiveness, organizational development, and process improvement. Nathan Ives is a StrategyDriven Principal and Host of the StrategyDriven Podcast.