Fixing Symptoms Won’t Help Your Team

Do you have a method or procedure used regularly by your team which is causing a problem? Have you created a ‘work around’ lately to fix a symptom rather than dealing with the problem? If so, your probably wasting a lot of precious energy which could be better spent elsewhere!

Consider the effects of poorly defined, confusing or otherwise problematic methods and procedures. What problems are they causing in your team? Any of these sound familiar?

- Employees don’t follow procedures
- Errors in customer orders are created
- Communication is poor
- The same errors occur over and over

Dedicating a few hours to reviewing methods and procedures that are considered problematic, determining the root cause of the problem, identifying and implementing the solution will help make your team higher performing.

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About Denise O'Berry

Hello! My name is Denise O’Berry — aka Team Doc. I’ve spent years working with teams and their leadership to help them improve and work through team issues. You see some of that advice in the answers on this website. I’d like to help you too. Connect with me on Google+, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube

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