Entrepreneurs often say, “People Issues are complicated.” Are they?
Topic: Issues & Problem Solving
3 Options for Tough Business Decisions
This one has been coming up a lot in sessions lately. That is always a good sign that it is time to share it with everyone. You should find this very helpful in creating context and taking some pressure off when your team is dealing with one of those big, nagging business issues.
Solve Business Problems – Compartmentalizing!
In a prior life, I often found myself dealing with about 136 issues daily, hoping to solve as many business problems as possible. But, no matter how many issues I moved off my desk, the next day there’d be a few more there waiting for me. I measured my productivity and success by how many problems I could solve. Often I found myself solving the same issues over and over again. Sound familiar?
Solving Business Problems – Start With This Discipline
How often have you sent emails or left voice messages for team members, asking them to solve business problems without considering what else they are working on? In the rush to solve business problems, well-intentioned leaders and managers sometimes create unnecessary chaos and work for themselves and their direct reports. Have you ever solved what you thought was an important business problem only to realize you had created an even larger one by over-reacting or reacting too quickly? Or have you ever diverted key resources away from higher priorities to solve things that weren’t as important?
How to Solve Business Problems – The Second Discipline
After capturing all your issues on your team’s Issues List – the first discipline – we now need to review the second discipline – how to solve business problems.
Three Steps to Overcoming the Fear of Change in Your Business
Under normal circumstances, it would be very unusual for anyone to accuse a true entrepreneur of fearing change. Pure entrepreneurs are not risk adverse. In fact, they are often accused of wanting to change too much – weekly!