By Mike Figliuolo, Managing Director, thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Making Complex Problems Simple

Language: English
All Levels

Course description

It’s easy to get overwhelmed by complex problems. By breaking the problem down, defining success, and focusing on meaningful issues, you’ll solve complex problems faster and more effectively.

We deal with complex problems every day. The trick to solving them is to break them apart and simplify them. This course provides a proven method for doing just that. The course covers how you can understand the question, identify key issues, find impactful solutions, prioritize your efforts, and ultimately solve your problems. The value of this course to participants and the organization are faster problem solving with more focus on meaningful solutions and less time wasted on low-value ideas and solving symptoms instead of causes.

Objectives Understand the Question, Success, and Decision to Make Determine the Issues Causing the Problem Ask Yourself “Does it change the answer?” Focus on Meaningful Issues and Ideas Solve the Issue and Reassess the Problem

Who is it for The target audience for this course is anyone who faces complex problems and is tasked with generating solutions for them.

Course overview - 5

  • Understand the Question, Success, and Decision to Make

  • Determine the Issues Causing the Problem

  • Ask Yourself “Does it change the answer?”

  • Focus on Meaningful Issues and Ideas

  • Solve the Issue and Reassess the Problem

Meet your instructor

Mike Figliuolo
Mike FigliuoloManaging Director, thoughtLEADERS, LLC
Mike Figliuolo is founder and managing director of thoughtLEADERS, LLC, a professional services training firm. He is an internationally recognized speaker and blogger on the topics of leadership, communications, decision-making, problem solving, and other critical business skills. An honor graduate from West Point, Mike served in the US Army as a combat arms officer. Before founding his own company, he was an assistant professor at Duke University, a consultant at McKinsey & Company, and an executive at Capital One and Scotts Miracle-Gro. He is the author of One Piece of Paper: The Simple Approach to Powerful, Personal Leadership (www.onepieceofpaper.com), Lead Inside the Box: How Smart Leaders Guide Their Teams to Exceptional Results (www.leadinsidethebox.com), and The Elegant Pitch: Create a Compelling Recommendation, Build Broad Support, and Get it Approved (www.elegantpitch.com). Mike's blog and the programs he teaches can be found at www.thoughtleadersllc.com.

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