Problems without Solutions

Many people tend to raise problems without offering solutions. It’s important that problems are raised, even if solutions haven’t been identified. But it’s frustrating when someone consistently points out problems without proposing solutions, as if that is a job for someone else. In this video, Tatiana Kolovou provides a few approaches for handling this: encouraging collaboration with others, facilitating brainstorming with that person and others, and helping thinkers to transition to communicating and problem-solving. Listen in as Tatiana Kolovou explains how.

Coming Up

Production work on my Project Management Foundations course is moving along well. I’ll be reviewing the entire course in a couple of weeks with publication soon after that.

_______________________________________

This article belongs to the Bonnie’s Project Pointers newsletter series, which has more than 106,000 subscribers. This newsletter is 100% written by a human (no aliens or AIs involved). If you like this article, you can subscribe to receive notifications when a new article posts.

Want to learn more about the topics I talk about in these newsletters? Watch my courses in the LinkedIn Learning Library and tune into my LinkedIn Office Hours live broadcasts.

_______________________________________