When you do not find a solution, look at the problem in different perspective...

So today I was stuck with a part of my work, where I took down the pain points but I couldn't find the solution. I reach out to umang. During the discussion, he helped me realised the problem statement that I had categorised into, it could be placed in a different light.

So the problem statement was in a team, one team member was having problems in expressing their bottlenecks faced in a task, they were asked by their team leaders again and again if there was some problem or did the project work was executed successfully.

The team member kept saying all were fine, untill he was continuously asked and probed then the bottlenecks would have found. The team lead felt like he was micromanaging his teammate.

Now previously I had characterised this as lack of initiative, but post talking to umang, I realised the team member might be having a problem in opening up or he is having a problem to express himself.

And thus solutions came popping up in my mind. The team leaders could be suggested to ask question to their team mate on the lines of whatever they understood post every briefing, rather than asking if he is facing any issues or not, in TOC exercise he could be asked to give a 30 second pitch on the steps he his taking to finish the project, or explain his work.

In this way the team together can find out the bottlenecks way before the task is done midway.

Also we could come up with some sprints to help with trainess being fluent with expressing themselves (i.e. 3-2-1 method).

For This solution i was stuck with since Friday and today it took 1 minute to come up with so many solutions for one problem.

So, my learning for today is a little looking through different perspective can bring greater solutions.

The question is can we allow our mind to look at things from different perspectives before banging our head ?

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