Crying with someone, it’s more healing than crying alone, is a popular saying. When you are ready to accept that there is a problem which is to be solved, it is the first step towards solving a problem or solving others’ problems.
Here, when you are volunteering to solve others’ problems, you will definitely grow in your life to be more mature and to be on your own during any calamity.
If you have lost your job or even when you are working, the problem solving skill will always boost your career.
Everybody can benefit from having good problem solving skills as we all encounter problems on a daily basis. Some of these problems may be as easy as you can solve in a short time, while the others may be more complicated.
It would be wonderful to have the ability to solve all problems efficiently and in a timely fashion without difficulty, unfortunately though there is no one way in which all problems can be solved.
All problems have two features in common: goals and barriers.
Goals
Problems involve setting out to achieve some objective or desired state of affairs and can include avoiding a situation or event.
Goals can be anything that you wish to achieve, or where you want to be. If you are hungry then your goal is probably to eat something. If you are the head of an organisation (CEO), then your main goal may be to maximise profits and this main goal may need to be split into numerous sub-goals in order to fulfil the ultimate aim of increasing profits.
Barriers
If there were no barriers in the way of achieving a goal, then there would be no problem. Problem solving involves overcoming the barriers or obstacles that prevent the immediate achievement of goals.
Following our examples above, if you feel hungry then your goal is to eat. A barrier to this may be that you have no food available – so you take a trip to the supermarket and buy some food, removing the barrier and thus solving the problem. Of course for the CEO wanting to increase profits there may be many more barriers preventing the goal from being reached. The CEO needs to attempt to recognise these barriers and remove them or find other ways to achieve the goals of the organisation.
So, likewise the problems can be broken into goals and barriers and can be effectively solved by planning, allocating resources where it is applicable, continuously monitoring by taking the feedback from the stakeholders and recording them for future reference.
Develop your problem solving ability to grow in your career and to excel in life.
