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

Great Results Team Building

However, all too often, teams rush to find solutions without taking the necessary time to define the problem clearly. Here’s a problem-solving process you can follow: Agreeing on the Problem: Before diving into solutions, it is crucial for teams to establish a shared understanding of the problem.

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Untangling the Accountability, Systems, and Process Management Knot

The Practical Leader

“The 85/15 Rule” emerged from decades of root cause analysis of service/quality breakdowns. This showed that roughly 85% of the time the failure is caused by the system, processes, structure, or practices of the organization. Local/department/team sub-optimization.

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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.” Measurement by whacking around thumps organization morale, smacks team effectiveness, and smashes improvement efforts. Theory X managers use performance management ratings to “hold people accountable.”

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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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At the Crossroads: Piecemeal Programs or Culture Change?

The Practical Leader

This too shall pass” From Bolt-On Programs to Built-In Culture Change Hundreds of studies over the decades have shown that 50 – 70 percent of improving customer service levels, restructuring, mergers/acquisitions, introducing new technologies, performance management systems, leadership training, and the like fail.

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

Harvard Business Review

Fortunately managers, aided by a senior data scientist engaged for a few hours a week, can introduce five powerful “tools” that will help their existing teams start to use analytics more powerfully to solve important business problems. Scaling Your Team’s Data Skills. This is the essence of data science.

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Applying a Model for Small Business Continual Improvement

Deming Institute

2) Implement a leadership model that balances your four type of competences of the leadership team (spiritual, intellectual, emotional and physical). 3) Be agile by delegating tasks and trusting your team. Root cause analysis. 7) Work in teams. Procedures Poka-yoke , visual management , SMED and 5S.

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