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7 Steps to Bulletproof Problem Solving

Leading Blog

Step Two: Disaggregate the Issues. How do you disaggregate the issues and develop hypotheses to be explored? The workplan and timetable assigns team members to analytic tasks with specific outputs and completion dates.”. Having a diverse team allows for different viewpoints to be brought together.

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7 Steps to Problem Solving

Skip Prichard

Complex problem solving is the core skill for 21st century teams. Today savvy business leaders are prioritizing complex problem solving skills in hiring rather than old domain knowledge, and emphasizing agile team problem solving over traditional planning cycles. 2: Disaggregate. Bulletproof Problem Solving. 3: Prioritize.

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Strategy as a Problem Solving Process

Strategy Driven

“The old paradigm of strategy departments and planning cycles has been overthrown by agile and rapid team-based problem solving, providing better solutions and better organization alignment to implement.” But what does it mean to adopt agile and rapid team-based problem solving, where strategy becomes a problem solving process?

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Making Diversity Central to Success: Q&A With Chevron’s Chief Diversity Officer

HR Digest

L-R) Chevron's Global HR Team: Rhonda Morris, VP and Chief Human Resources Officer; Lee Jourdan, Chief Diversity Officer; Brian Chase, Manager of Strategy and Planning, Global Diversity. The HR Digest: You have been critical in pushing for progress in diversity & inclusion (D&I) at Chevron.

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3 Ways to Get More Out of Your Web Analytics

Harvard Business Review

When your team reviews web analytics in your monthly marketing meeting, the person in charge of analytics reports says, “We got 123,456 visitors to our website this month.” And why has your sales team just seen an influx of new leads — are those things related? You and Your Team. Does this sound familiar?

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Why Your Salespeople Are Pushovers

Harvard Business Review

In ongoing efforts to differentiate their companies, virtually every leadership team has exhorted their team to "put the customer first," or "place the customer at the center of everything we do." It's not a bad strategy, mind you, but it backfires when leadership is vague about how this translates to specific behavior.

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The Best Investment You'll Ever Make

Harvard Business Review

This approach not only allows you to be responsive, it gives the employee an opportunity to think strategically and to demonstrate he or she is a team player, further underscoring their value to the firm. Even when we are predisposed to say yes, sometimes seeing our employees in the role they envision for themselves can be difficult.