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Coaching for Leaders

333: How to Solve Problems Faster, with Greg Hall

Coaching for Leaders

Dave Stachowiak

Management, Careers, Business

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Greg Hall: Fix Your System

Greg Hall has 20 years experience as a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt and Director of Data Analytics for a Fortune 500 company. He coaches business owners and executives to capture personal data analytics to achieve goals and reduce the stress that comes from sustained productivity.

Key Points

  • The more data we can bring to a problem, the better we’re able to see the solution. “A problem well defined is a problem half solved.”
  • Before jumping into a problem you need to invest time to gather information about it.
  • An easy way to start with personal data analytics is to just write down the time and the activity. And when you switch activities, update the record.
  • You can’t create a budget if you don’t know how much you’re spending. It’s the same thing with planning: how can you plan if you don’t where you’re spending your time.
  • First, assess how much work you have. Then, honestly ask yourself how much capacity for work you have.
  • The hard work of fixing a problem is defining it well.
  • You can’t plan out your interruptions, but you can plan for them: you don’t know when they’ll happen, but you do know how often they tend to happen and how long they typically take.

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0:00.0

A problem well defined is a problem half solved.

0:03.0

On today's show how to utilize data and analytics to frame your problems

0:07.5

and get the clarity you need to solve them fast.

0:11.0

This is Coaching for Leaders episode 333.

0:14.0

Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential.

0:20.0

Greetings to you from Orange County, California. This is coaching for leaders and I'm your

0:28.4

host Dave Stahoviac. Leaders aren't born, they're made. And this weekly show gives you access to the practical wisdom

0:36.8

that will empower you to become a better leader and solve problems faster. That's our topic today on this episode.

0:45.4

We've been talking a lot in the last few weeks on productivity,

0:49.5

the right timing, efficiency, and yet we haven't talked much about how do you actually solve problems in a way that helps you to not only make better decisions, but to do it more quickly.

1:02.8

I am really excited to be able to welcome to the show today, Greg Hall.

1:07.7

Greg has a specialty in harnessing the power of data analytics

1:12.3

to help busy leaders achieve greater productivity.

1:15.3

He is a lean six-sigma black belt and he's the former director of analytics for a large health

1:21.2

care company of $60 billion and today he works with clients one

1:26.6

on one to help them to solve problems faster. About a year ago he got pulled away

1:30.9

from his corporate job to be serving clients one-on-one.

1:33.8

He is also a member of the Coaching for Leaders Academy and has been for two years now.

1:39.1

Greg, I am so glad to welcome you to the show.

1:42.1

So glad to be here, Dave. You are the very first

1:44.8

member of the Coaching Foolers Academy who's who's been a guest so I'm I'm really

1:49.7

looking forward to this conversation. So we were talking about solving problems faster for people and I was just so

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