Saturday, 23 February 2019

Why individuals seek for ready-made solution?

This is a typical phenomenon in most of the workshop.

Individuals show up to the workshop and demand there will be someone who will provide them a magic pill which will solve their problems!!!

Most of the workshop hijack with such problem they were facing, sometime we also felt that they need a platform where they want to vent out their challenges.

Most of the time they are not eager to discover their own solution!
Only a few percentages are ready to experiment and try, the majority are seeking for a ready made solutions!

Though as a coach we work with them to change the mindset.

I was thinking to detect this answer, Why? Why the majority are like this?

  • Fear of the Unknown
  • Lack of resources
  • Individuals choose to gain pleasure and avoid pain
  • They do not discover “Why” 
  • What is the bigger picture?
  • The individual is not willing to learn and going beyond the prescribed boundary.
  • The ecosystem is not ready to admit failure and not free from the blame culture
  • Few passionate pessimistic individuals are spreading negative energy on a daily basis

Most of the transformation assignment, I identify these typical patterns. Team members do not take action because of all the above reason.

Once we discover in some teams where individuals are performing reasonably better, I could understand all these typical characteristics are missing by the team members.


Without action, you aren’t going anywhere– Gandhi

How do we change? 

  • For any adjustment to take place, someone has to figure out something and start executing differently
  • Massive problems are most often solved by an array of small solutions over a longer duration of time; sometimes over weeks and occasionally over decades.
  • A desire to provide crystal clear direction on what specifically individuals should start doing, stop doing or continue doing
  • We must need to single out the applicable behavior. Most often it must be a positive feeling,
  • We must establish that the change or task won’t be unusual big and dreadful 
My book, The Agilist's Guidebook, has 88 problems and solutions!! 

For those who want to discover my journey and reuse some of those steps. Please read.

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