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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

Then, use the second key: powerful generative questions. Leaders, anxious to do something about it, began a root cause analysis and did surveys to clarify the extent of the problem and solicit solutions. Then ask powerful questions that generate a pathway into a future that is co-created! Here’s an example.

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What Accounts for the Accountability Mess?

The Practical Leader

The most powerful and accurate feedback is a well-designed 360 assessment process with strengths-based coaching. “The 85/15 Rule” emerged from decades of root cause analysis on service/quality breakdowns. Power Point: Who’s to Blame for this Mess? Leaders are the culture’s power source.

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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. Over time, seek to make root cause analysis your standard for all important issues.

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Thriving Through Processes

Leadership Freak

Powerful processes: Eliminate drama. Effective and efficient processes create platforms that enable, enhance, and evaluate both individual and organizational performance. What’s your systematic process for achieving breakthroughs, living transparently, and solving problems, for example? Prevent distractions. Focus talent.

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Thriving Through Processes

Leadership Freak

Powerful processes: Eliminate drama. Effective and efficient processes create platforms that enable, enhance, and evaluate both individual and organizational performance. What’s your systematic process for achieving breakthroughs, living transparently, or solving problems? Prevent distractions. Focus talent. Instill confidence.

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Leadership Lessons From The Seven Arts Of Change

Eric Jacobson

There is so much power in this small act because it can immediately establish trust and diffuse the negative energy exuding from individuals at the outset of change. Listening is the root of collaboration, root-cause analysis, and effective teamwork. That is because such leaders exude compassion.