Week 5- Application of Problem-solving Template
1. Using template to work through an operational or leadership issue is a significant tool that helps in identifying leadership issues and, thereby, finds way to look for various alternative solutions to them. Identifying core operational issues through situational analysis helps one figure out what exactly the leadership situation in crisis is. And, creating ideas and vision through a set of action plan can help solve the crisis.
2. First of all, identifying criteria that can help in solving the core leadership issue is a challenging task. Next, how to priorities ideas is another important and challenging step. However, through meticulous analysis of the leadership situation to identify core issue is beneficial in listing ideas so as to rate them on a scale of 0-5.
3. This template is a great way of analysing leadership issue, and exploring solution using both quantitative and qualitative criteria of assessment. However, setting up right criteria, generating ideas to match the criteria, and prioritising them appropriately are some of the big challenges to this approach.
4. I think, change management leadership is a critical skill that today’s leadership requires. One of the most important qualities that a change management leader should possess is to be able to identify the need for change in organisation and manage accordingly.
A change management leader is assumed to have other skills like communication, digital literacy, strategic analysis and planning, vision, and so on. Because of those skills, the change management leader will be able to identify what’s going wrong in the organisation and will solve the issues accordingly. Being able to identify and make situational analysis of what’s going wrong, explore solutions to address the issue by generating ideas are some of the critical skills that a change management leader possesses.