Introduction to Problem Solving Skills
Maximum Achievement
Discover the 39 essential tools needed to solve problems and make the very most of your life.
Methods of Risk Analysis
The first half of the section covers general approaches. Appreciation is a useful technique for extracting good information from dry facts. Drill Down helps you to break large, seemingly unmanageable problems down into achievable parts. It also helps you to see where you need more information. Cause & Effect Diagrams are very useful for making sure that you have considered all factors relating to a problem, while Systems Diagrams are hugely powerful tools for showing how factors interact in complex situations.
Make Time for Success! (MTFS!)discusses specific tools for specific situations. SWOT Analysis helps you to work out a survival and success strategy in a competitive environment. Forecasting with Spreadsheets shows you how to make financial models of your organization or projects. You can use these to work out whether projects are viable and use them to forecast the effects of changes in underlying factors. Risk Analysis provides a formal framework for identifying the risks you face, and helps you to work out a strategy for controlling them.
Problem solving skills include -
- Extracting maximum information from facts - Appreciation
- Understanding problems in detail - Drill-Down
- Identifying possible causes of problems - Cause & Effect Diagrams
- Understanding the way factors affect one-another - Systems Diagrams
- Analysing Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats - SWOT Analysis
- Making Forecasts with Spreadsheets
- Planning to solve a problem - Action Plans
- Finding out how much your time is worth - Costing Your Time
- Making sure you concentrate on the right things - Deciding Work Priorities
- Checking how you really spend your time - Activity Logs
- Tackling the right tasks first - Prioritized To Do Lists
- Deciding what your personal priorities should be - Personal Goal Setting
- Planning to make the best use of your time - Effective Scheduling
- Time management products reviewed - Reviews
- By the end of this section, you should have a much clearer understanding of how to use time to its greatest effect.
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