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

Great Results Team Building

This tool encourages systematic thinking and promotes a shared understanding of the problem’s root causes. Five Whys : The 5 Whys technique is a simple yet powerful tool for root cause analysis. It involves repeatedly asking “why” to dig deeper into the underlying reasons behind a problem.

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Two Keys for Today’s Leaders

Lead Change Blog

Keys that would inspire creativity, motivate collaborative action, and generate innovative possibilities for resolving complex challenges? Then, use the second key: powerful generative questions. Then ask powerful questions that generate a pathway into a future that is co-created! There are only two keys. Here’s an example.

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Debriefing: A Simple Tool to Help Your Team Tackle Tough Problems

Harvard Business Review

This is where debriefing, a simple and powerful tool, comes in. In business, debriefing has been widely documented as critical to accelerating projects, innovating novel approaches, and hitting difficult objectives. What caused our results? This is the root-cause analysis and should go deeper than obvious, first-level answers.

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