Author : Gilbert Griffiths
Problems - we all have them. In fact, most of us have far too many of them. So, how do we solve our problems? Most of us look at them and just hope they will go away. Funny thing, though, the next time we look they are all still there along with a few more that grew out of some that we should have solved ages ago. What a dilemma we’ve got now. Maybe, we can try a new method that I just read about.The first step in solving a problem is to clearly define what the problem is. Supposing our problem is getting more sales for our business. What exactly does this mean?Does it mean we need more customers? Or does it mean we have to make more money from our sales? Each of these definitions has a different solution.If we need more customers, we can hold a sale, promote a popular product, advertise more, contact our existing customers and offer them an incentive to bring someone new into our business. There are many ways to gain new customers and most of you could name far more than I have space to cover here.If we need to make more money from our sales, then we can raise our prices; convince our existing customers to purchase more products when they visit our business. Add new products to our product lines. Again there are many ways to accomplish this requirement.We’ve now seen that how a problem is defined changes how it is solved. What we must now determine is how we should go about defining our problem.The first step is to write the problem down so that we have an idea of what it is. Using the above example, we would write down "We need to improve our bottom line." This statement opens up a whole list of possibilities. If we look back, at the way it was first expressed, "more sales for our business" it’s kind of vague. Do we want to improve the number of sales, the value of sales, or some other aspect?So, now we’ve seen that to determine how to solve our problem, we must examine the problem thoroughly and determine exactly what our problem is. Once that is done, we can then brainstorm possible solutions.Get several key people together and have everyone take a turn at announcing a solution. Don’t be critical of the solutions proposed, just write them down and continue until everyone runs out of ideas. It doesn’t matter how impractical the proposed solution is, at this stage of the process, all solutions are acceptable. Sometimes it’s the most impractical solution that turns out to be the best one. Once all the solutions are recorded, start going through them and determine what would have to be done to have each solution help to solve the problem. Discard any that don’t solve the problem or that for a legitimate reason cannot be implemented. Once this is done, list the remaining solutions in order of easiest to implement to hardest to implement or from least expensive to implement to most expensive. Once this is done then take each solution and document the steps needed to put it into action. Once we have completed this for every solution, our problem should be solved and we can move onto the next one.Keep these documented solutions in a file with the name of the problem as a title. If the problem ever reappears in the future, a set of ready-made solutions is available.By using these tactics to tackle problems, it will often be obvious what the solution is as soon as the problem is properly identified.Give it a try. You’ve got nothing to lose, and possibly a whole lot to gain.Gilbert Griffiths helped thousands of people during a professional career that spanned more than
35 years. He recently came out of retirement with a passionate goal to help one million people
improve their lives. Would you like to be one of those people? If you would, go to
http://www.rockettosuccess.com
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