7 Questions to Solve Team Problems and Innovate Solutions
The power of coaching questions is that they allow the manager to listen to the response, and really understand how and what the person is thinking.
How Teams Work My Team Has Problems
It happens to most teams: at some point, the team doesn’t seem to be working as well as it should.
You can enforce attendance you cannot enforce learning
If you want to solve someone’s problem more than they want to solve it, you are enlarging the problem for both of you.
Complexity of the Work and the Person
Figure out what is needed & what success looks like in the role. Only then can you ask the proper questions to find the person to fill that role.
Too many organizations & managers get it wrong. They look for the person, assuming that they will “fit-into” the role or even worse that they have the “potential to grow into the role”.
How do you create a trust-attracting team with 50 people from 3 states?
The easiest way to build a team is to let them be a team. Removing barriers. Leaving people alone to come up with great ideas, plus supplying plenty of snacks.
How Teams Work When Team Members get Difficult
Even on teams that are performing well, one or more members may become disruptive to the team’s progress…or just make being on the team an unpleasant experience.
As team leaders & team members having some techniques and preparation of how to create a system that will ameliorate this will place the team back on the path toward success, while the team member feels respected and part of the team.
2 Steps for Change Understand the Situation Identify Progress
Change and solutions happen through many people making small changes constantly.
Managers Team Leaders have an illusion of control over team members
You don’t have to see your view of progress for progress to happen.
How are procedures useful to teamwork? How can they be a hindrance?
Does the team have shared work procedures? What is seen as strong personalities may be competent people doing what they think is right – in many different directions.
The Organizational Assessment Said we Need Communication Training
For organizational change to work and the assessment that the company just did to be worth the paper it is printed on the Abstract Concepts of the Assessment must be put into practical application of the work. Otherwise you are just exacerbating the problems by causing more problems.