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Your team's core deliverable: Solving problems

Your team's core deliverable: Solving problems

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Your team's core deliverable: Solving problems

- So what if you walked into work tomorrow and told your team, I want you to inventory all the problems you solve, individually and collectively. The team goes to huddle in a conference room, fills a whiteboard with post-it notes describing the recurring problems the team encounters. And, by the end of the day, the team has a map of all the aggregate challenges that they face on a regular basis. The next day you walk into work and you tell your team, now, I want you to figure out all the tasks you perform, individually and collectively, to solve those problems. And be sure to write down how much time you spend on each of those tasks. Team goes back to the conference room, creates another blizzard of post-it notes and, by the end of the day, they have a map of the tasks they perform to solve all those recurring problems. By now your team members may be scratching their heads, what's the boss looking for here? Is this laying the groundwork for a reorganization? Is my job in jeopardy?…

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