Up-Level Your Team Problem Solving

"Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be." Dr. E. Fosdik

The same holds true for teams!

I’ve had the honor and privilege of working with dozens of teams over the years, in strategic planning, meeting design, as thinking partners, and for goal setting. The one thing I find most helpful, not just in the meetings, but towards overall effectiveness, is to get the team to visualize their goals together.

We use a five-step approach:

• Write out the problem- all the details and emotions that go along with it
• Write out past successes- what helped you: tools, resources, thinking patterns
• How can you apply what you found in step 2 to the current problem?
• Spend time picturing what life looks like when you complete your goal
• Make your plan for NEXT steps and measurements of success

While this might be different than some of the other change processes that most of my clients have done in the past, it works! It works every single time!

Why? Because the image you download in your own personal mind and the collective mind of the team drives behavior and results, not your plan!

This is a gross oversimplification of the five-step process! If you’d like to watch a 90-minute video explaining each step in detail and really put it to work for your own team, GO HERE. Please let me know how I might be able to help!