Problem Solving
The problem-solving spectrum
Increase your problem-solving power by partnering with Stroud to unlock valuable opportunity. These problems are hiding and increasing your team's capability and confidence to tackle even the most challenging problems.
Solving these hard problems will change what you and others in your organization think is possible.
How you focus your engagement with Stroud will depend on the maturity of your problem-solving skills and your business's needs. Many clients choose to start an engagement with Stroud to solve a critical problem quickly and then progress to greater training focus over time.
Our Offerings
1. Solving the hardest problems now
When you have a hard problem that needs to be solved right now, you can engage us to focus 100% of our efforts on solving the problem as quickly as possible.
What to expect
Fastest results (2-8 weeks)
Stroud takes the lead in solving the problem
Your team works to assist Stroud, and experiences great problem solving in action
Stroud’s problem-solving strengths
Our team is trained from day one, focusing on developing the right behaviours and mindsets
The team's primary focus is solving hard problems, with minimal other distractions
We create an environment that nurtures the development of problem-solving talent
Great problem-solving role models and coaches are always at hand
What your team learns
Stroud works with you to provide the fastest results. Stroud will lead the problem-solving effort, leveraging your team to accelerate progress. As constraints are shattered and the impossible is made real, your team will grow their belief that hard problems can be solved.
2. Working together to solve problems and develop capability
When you want to solve your hard problems and grow your team's capability simultaneously, you can engage Stroud to work closely with your team to solve the problem together. Your team is trained and then enters a high-intensity problem-solving effort with Stroud.
What to expect
Rapid results (6-12 weeks)
Your team learns by actively participating in the problem solving process
Stroud and your team work closely together in the trenches
How working with Stroud helps you improve
Increases your organizational will by showing what is possible through solving impossible problems
Helps the organization get through the roadblocks that will inevitably arise and threaten the problem-solving effort
Teach and model problem-solving behaviours and methods
Intensely coaches the organization working side-by-side solving impossible problems
Trains the organization in groups to build a self-reinforcing problem solving culture
What your team learns
Your problem-solving teams will receive training on the behaviours and method for solving hard problems and immediately put them to work. Over the following 6 - 12 weeks, they'll work intensely, with Stroud serving as a coach, facilitator, and problem-solving role model. The Rapid Results Team is the fastest path to capability development for your team.
3. Coaching and training
When you or your team is looking to take your problem solving skills to the next level, you can engage us to develop as quickly as possible.
What to expect
Inexperienced problem solvers will learn the behaviors and method they can use to win
Advances problem solvers will get customized coaching to help them improve even more
How training with Stroud helps you improve
All trainers and coaches have amassed past problem solving success
Stroud will teach problem solving to your team in the same way it teaches its own elite problem solvers
Your advanced problem solvers will be coached by Stroudies who have coached other Stroudies through hard problems
What your team learns
Your team will learn skills, methods, and behaviours appropriate for their level and the level required by the organization. Inexperienced problem solvers will develop their path and begin to learn the theory. Advanced problem solvers will hone their understanding of the theory and master their skills by working on a hard problem with a Stroud coach. Your team can get any of the following:
Online workshops that introduce the basics
Live training for a team of problem solvers ready to work on a hard problem
High-intensity on-site coaching to help one or more problem solvers solve a hard problem
Lower-intensity phone coaching to help advanced problem solvers to break through difficulties and constraints
Ready to solve your problems?
Problems solving tools
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Stop Guessing
Tough problems persist because most people have only been trained to solve easy problems, usually by guessing.
Stop Guessing is a set of problem solving behaviors that any team can learn to drive a step change in their ability to solve problems.
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Variable Analysis
The toughest problems require not just the right behaviors, but also a structured method that ensures that any problem will be solved, quickly, and most importantly without guessing.
Variable Analysis is a formal problem solving process based on these behaviors that is designed to solve any problem.