By having people do something (not too scary or different) that appears to be novel or unique may be a sufficient change to break their “stuckness in thinking” or the existing patterns of behavior the team exhibits. Once we can shift behavior patterns people sometimes see better, novel, more innovative ways of doing their work.
Solutions-Focused coaching offers you a way of developing a team sustainably and systematically – even in turbulent situations. You will take away a set of new tools, techniques, and tips that you can apply immediately in your work.
Perhaps different or better results may come by reversing the actions normally associated with your efforts.
Understanding and various uses of Nine Windows, a TRIZ inventive problem solving tool, and Use of Nine Windows to break “stuckness” in thinking and view solutions from a systemic level.
It can be overwhelming to create a frame around a challenge. Forcing other people & yourself to share a narrative story using fixed resources, can break the stuckness & fear of the unknown.
Imagine the solution being performed, at the micro level, by many Smart Little People.
I’m offering 3 webinars on Innovation Tools for the ASQ Human Development & Leadership Division.
Breakthrough Improvements happen when we stop doing what we have been doing and a team of people discover better & new ways of working.
How might you separate the system (that contains the problem you want to solve) in time to allow it to be one way at one time and a different way at another time?
Changing perspectives and finding times when the solution has happened or might happen or can happen. Will point to the solution itself, making the problem irrelevant.