Problem Solving 101 (3 min read)

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Please share with your team and make sure all of you deploy this technique internally and externally.

Many years ago I decided to focus on helping people solve problems rather than helping solve people’s problems.

These suggestions are some approaches you should find effective:

• Never allow others to think you always have the best answers
  • This will only make them dependent on you.
• Ask questions. Help people to think through the entire process of their problem.
• Become a coach, not a king.
  • A king only gives commands.

A coach brings out the best in others, helping them to reach deep down inside and discover their potential.

• List their solutions on paper. Integrate your ideas with theirs until they have ownership of them.
• Ask them to decide on the best solution to their problem.
• Develop a game plan.
  • Ask them to take ownership and responsibility for the game plan.
• Let them set up a time frame and an accountability process.

The goal should be that when the meeting is over, the other person has processed the problem, selected a solution, developed a game plan, and taken ownership of it.

His or her relationship with you will not be a dependent one but a deepening one.

Good Luck