How to guide your team when feeling “stuck”

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Resources for Individuals DESIGNED AS SELF HELP TECHNIQUES TO STRENGTHEN YOUR OWN SKILLS

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Tick- Tock: To assist in self-reflection and change negative thoughts to positive ones

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False Faces: A strategy to use to identify fresh ideas to a challenge by reversing conventional assumptions

Think Bubbles and Dialogue Mapping: A strategy to use when you think there is no solution. It’s a way of opening your mind to every possible option and identify what is realistic or not to pursue.

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Resources for Teams TECHNIQUES DESIGNED TO STRENGTHEN THE SKILLS FOR YOUR TEAM AS A WHOLE

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KANTOR 4 Player Model: To assist in identifying the necessary types of communications within a team

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DMAIC: Great resource for teams without identified leaders. Used as a resource to find solutions of an obvious problem within an existing process. Decisions are based off of collected data.

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Systematic Problem Solving (SPS): A tool developed to solve more complex issues that requires data collection/ analysis from multiple perspectives. Works best with 2-4 people.

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SWOT Analysis: A management strategy used to identify the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats for a team, both internally and externally. (Strengths and weaknesses are the internal values and the opportunities and threats are the external values). This is a great resource for the team to take a step back and understand the dynamic and capabilities of their team as a whole.

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Citation and Resources

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