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

Great Results Team Building

By overlooking this crucial step, teams may only address the symptoms of the problem, leading to ineffective or short-term solutions Successful team leaders look beyond symptoms and define problems clearly before seeking solutions. The main categories typically include people, process, equipment, materials, environment, and management.

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At the Crossroads: Piecemeal Programs or Culture Change?

The Practical Leader

Their two main routes are piecemeal programs to “fix the frontline” or a long-term cultural change process. But few are willing to pay the price to make the long and winding road to culture change. Lay low long enough, and they’ll soon be on to another flavor-of-the-month. It’s broad and well-used.

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5 Concepts That Will Help Your Team Be More Data-Driven

Harvard Business Review

It will take decades for the public education systems to churn out enough people with the needed skills — far too long for companies to wait. Rather, based on my experiences working with companies on their data strategy, these five concepts offer the biggest near-term bang for the buck. Nor is my intent to make people experts.

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Applying a Model for Small Business Continual Improvement

Deming Institute

Root cause analysis. 14) Create a structure in top management that will push every day on the above 13 points. Procedures Poka-yoke , visual management , SMED and 5S. 12) Consider your supplier as a long term partner. Cause and effect diagram. Leadership. 8) Drive out fear. Processes.

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To Handle Increased Stress, Build Your Resilience

Harvard Business Review

We turn to productivity tools or apps that promise to help us manage mounting pressures or we look for ways to alleviate our discomfort: find a different job, hire a new employee to take on an increased workload, or switch careers. Analysis alone isn’t enough. But these solutions are often temporary and ineffective.

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Identifying Root Causes Beats Quick Fixes Every Time

Frank Sonnenberg Online

Had I not met naturopathic physician Andrew Rubman of the Southbury Clinic in Southbury, Connecticut, who taught me about healing the root problem, I would probably have been on prednisone and Xanax all this time, still suffering from hives yet with even more health challenges caused by the side effects of the medications.

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