Skyrocket Your Creative Thinking Skills With These Easy-to-Use Activities
Creative thinking is a valuable skill and can help you stand out and produce great results. Read on for a list of proven ways to increase your creativity. I …
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Productive Conflict at Work: Simple Guidelines to Keep it Positive
Follow these guidelines for productive conflict at work to get the benefit without the battle. You know conflict at work can be productive for many reasons. But do you …
Read MoreHow to Handle Bikeshedding: Parkinson’s Law of Triviality
Even if you don’t yet know the term bikeshedding, you’ve likely experienced it. Have you ever found yourself in a meeting discussing something relatively unimportant, yet the time and …
Read MoreHow to Create an Easy Pareto Chart to Highlight Your Biggest Opportunities
A Pareto chart is a bar graph that displays data in descending frequency from left to right. It's helpful for determining where to focus your efforts in problem-solving and …
Read MoreThe Osborn Parnes Creative Problem-Solving Process
The Osborn Parnes creative problem-solving process is a structured way to generate creative and innovative ways to address problems. If you want to grow in your career, you need …
Read MoreAgile Practices: How to Run a Lean Coffee
The term Lean Coffee doesn’t sound like a productive meeting session. But that’s EXACTLY what it’s intended to be. It’s structured in a way that allows participants to quickly …
Read MoreHow to Improve Problem Solving with Lessons Learned
This is a guest article by Elizabeth Harrin from GirlsGuideToPM.com. So you’ve got a problem. It’s on the issue log. You’ve pulled together the key subject matter experts who can …
Read More3 Simple Charts and Graphs You Should Be Using to Make Your Next Project Presentation More Powerful
Charts and graphs are a great way to share important information about your project. These three simple charts and graphs will help you communicate project information in a way …
Read MoreHow to Use an Affinity Diagram to Easily Organize Ideas and Information
An Affinity Diagram is a tool that helps you group large amounts of information based on theme or relationship.
Read MoreHow to Run a Successful Brainstorming Session for Productive Problem-Solving
Brainstorming is an approach that teams can use to generate many ideas quickly. The goal is to inspire more creative thoughts to generate many ideas quickly and often build from …
Read MoreHow to Use the Ishikawa Fishbone Diagram as an Awesome Problem-Solving Tool
An easy explanation of how to use this powerful problem-solving tool with a simple fishbone diagram example. Have you ever been faced with a problem you didn’t know how …
Read MoreHow to Use Voice of the Customer (VOC) for Critical Customer Feedback
Getting the Voice of the Customer (VOC) tells you if you’re on the right track in your product or process improvement project. If you want to know that you’re …
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