This book is about Problem-Solving, one of the 10 Core Competencies of Effectiveness, your ability to identify and resolve complex problems, make better decisions, and sleep well at night. Volume 6: Your Guide to Better Problem-Solving, from The Effectiveness Guide, provides you with the best in class knowledge, wisdom, and advice on how you can become more effective today than you were yesterday. It contains the most important actionable skills essential for you to maximize your true career potential by becoming a better problem-solver and decision-maker. How well do you resolve problems and make decisions? Any room for improvement? How do you know for sure? Would your employer agree? Effective people know the value of problem-solving and decision-making and how it contributes to their ability to consistently produce excellent results. How effective are you at work? Would your employer agree? How effective are you outside of work? In a 21st-century world, the best companies, the ones who make it to the top in their industry, are thriving because they're breaking all the old rules and stereotypes of traditional leadership. Positions, titles, and organizational charts are meaningless. I know this because over my 20+ years as executive coach, working with hundreds of business executives and small business owners, I learned the most important reason most businesses today are struggling, while others are thriving. It's called Effectiveness, both individual and team effectiveness. Effectiveness is your ability to consistently produce excellent results, treat others with dignity, respect, and kindness, and help others do the same. So, what are you doing to more effective tomorrow than you are today? If you're honest with yourself, "not much" is your answer. And, you're not alone. But, here's the problem: If you're not getting better over-time, guess what your peers are doing? You can change all this today by taking personal accountability for your career and by learning how to measure and increase your effectiveness in every aspect of your life. I know that without your direct intervention in your career, you're leaving your career to chance. You'll have no choice but to be like everyone else; spending your early years struggling, frustrated, making one mistake after another, until you finally get it right - often by accident. But, it doesn't have to be that way! The truth is that you can cut your learning curve in half and gain years of valuable experience by understanding and using this simple principle: We all make mistakes. That's how you learn. You can also learn from the mistakes of others, but only if you're paying attention. Paying attention and learning from the mistakes of others is critical to your effectiveness. This is why we created The Effectiveness Guide which contains 1000+ actionable Tactics, Techniques, and Tools (or best practices) that have proven reliable when it comes to maximizing your effectiveness with these 10 core competencies: Followership, Delegating, Planning, Organizing, Communicating, Problem-Solving/Decision-Making, Awareness, Training, Motivating, and Character. Without your drive for greater effectiveness, becoming more effective tomorrow than you are today, no program of self-development can ever help you achieve your true potential. So, if you're looking for a better way to jump-start your income producing potential, this guide will be the best investment you could ever make. The one thing I know for certain is that waiting for someone else to make you more effective, is the definition of complacency, which will kill your career. Also, if you feel this information could help someone else, please take a few moments to let them know. If it turns out to make a difference in their life, they'll be forever grateful to you - as will I. Let's make a difference together - one person at a time! Stop wishing you were better and do something about it today.
