Tough choices in the
workplace call
for
Powerful Solutions
By Jerry McGrath
As a leader, how do you make choices?
Do you define problems and create models?
Do you come up with ideas and
solicit different perspectives?
Do you make decisions and apply reasoning
to problems?
Most leaders will answer yes to each of these questions. Research indicates, however, that we often have a bias to applying one type of solution to challenges. In fact, entire organizational cultures can reflect a bias for modeling or action, ideation or analysis. The choices that you make now and in the coming months will have a significant impact on the future competitiveness, and success, of your team and organization.
Effective solutions to complex challenges require a balanced approach. Current business challenges are taking a new form, and consequently they are demanding different strategies and approaches for addressing them. These new challenges are not clear, straight-forward, or well-defined, although on the surface they may appear so. Today’s leaders express a growing recognition that there is much more to any challenge than what appears on the surface. The increasing complexity and interconnectedness of business processes with environmental, political, technological and social dynamics create a climate where nothing is as simple as it may seem. Acting with too little understanding may get a quick fix, but may also lead to costly, unwanted consequences and missed opportunities. Failure to act can lead to challenges spiraling out of control as problems are defined but solutions never applied.
Powerful Solutions for Leaders is a course highlighted by a series of customized 2.5-day programs that will take your organization through a process to discover and apply solutions, and ensure that a balanced approach is applied to your challenges.
The Powerful Solutions for Leaders program:
- Brings focus and vision to workplace obstacles
- Uses creative and divergent thinking processes to respond to complex challenges
- Uses critical and convergent thinking to create powerful solutions
- Moves new ideas from vision to reality
- Refines and sustains innovation
Contact us today for more information and to talk about your leadership challenge.
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