Turn Every Obstacle into an Opportunity

In my life even though I have encountered many roadblocks to achieving some of my goals, I always looked at these obstacles as potential opportunities.

In many cases the obstacles I encountered were items I had failed to think about during the planning process.

Remember that in most instances and rather than starting your project from scratch each time you encounter an obstacle try to incorporate your new found solution into your existing action plan.

After a few years in leadership I developed a simple process to quickly navigate through the problem solving process and in almost every case the plan became stronger and more effective once I was able to incorporate the newly found solutions into the original plan.

Here are a short but very effective process the helped me to turn problems into opportunities;

1.Divide the perceived problem or obstacles into smaller pieces., make sure you use the 5 why process or root cause analysis to get to the root cause of the problem. Once simplified it is easier to devise a solution to incorporate into your plan.

2. Once you come up with a strong solution to the problem be quick to incorporate the new solution into your plan …we will call that an improvement into your process

3. Be quick to action with the implementation.

4. Continue to review and make changes to the action plan as necessary.

Remember that change is the only constant in the Planning process….