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

Great Results Team Building

And the most Effective Leaders follow a repeatable, step-by-step process for clarifying and solving the right problem, emphasizing the importance of writing down and agreeing on the problem, acknowledging distracting assumptions, listing possible causes through diverse perspectives, and gaining support for implementing the solution.

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Untangling the Accountability, Systems, and Process Management Knot

The Practical Leader

Often good performers are put into bad processes within systems that subvert rather than support them. “The 85/15 Rule” emerged from decades of root cause analysis of service/quality breakdowns. Key reasons horizontal process management is needed: Functional silos and chimneys create errors, delays, and waste.

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Thriving Through Processes

Leadership Freak

Organizations without processes never thrive. 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.

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Thriving Through Processes

Leadership Freak

Organizations without processes never thrive. 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? Powerful processes: Eliminate drama.

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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. Looking for What, Not Who Went Wrong Putting a good person into a bad system or process usually sets that person up for failure — and blame. Ineffective leaders are allergic to feedback and blissfully ignorant.

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Are These Systems Serving or Subverting Organization Results?

The Practical Leader

As I wrote about the accountability mess , a good person in a bad system or process sets that them up for failure — and blame. “The 85/15 Rule” emerged from decades of root cause analysis of service/quality breakdowns. These core systems either boost or block performance. Who Are Your Systems Serving?

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Corrective Action Program Best Practice 2 – Causal Analyses

Strategy Driven

For over twenty years, he has served as trusted advisor to executives and managers at dozens of Fortune 500 and smaller companies in the areas of management effectiveness, organizational development, and process improvement. Business Performance Assessment Program Best Practice 8 – Documented Business Performance Assessment Process.