Well what is a problem solver?
I grew up on a farm – it something was broke you fixed it – problem solver
I became an electrician in an automotive manufacturing plant, and a maintenance supervisor and manager. You can be this required a lot of problems to solve.
How do you like to solve your problems?
- We men had a tendency to bull our way through a problem, often trying to solve by brute force.
- Women are more sensitive and often do a better job at looking at the broader issue first.
If you are a man and as a women tells you about a problem, you can hardly wait to tell her the solution to her problem, often before she finishes telling you about it. Ouch.
Often she just wants you to listen and maybe she already knows what she needs to do and just wants someone to listen?
Listen? I have to listen to be a good problem solver? Yes!
Have you ever considered that your life might be better if you became a better listener.
If you are like me, you generally listen until someone gets to the point that you feel you have the answer and you interrupt them with the solution. It’s not easy to restrain our natural enthusiasm as a problem solver to let the person finish so that we have all the facts.
Do you think your life could be better is you took a little more time to listen?
Would you feel more important is someone took the time to listen to you, to really hear what you had to say?
I’m nodding my head up and down here.
In my profession, I am a problem solver.
- I help people solve problems
- First I have to understand what their problem is.
- Guess what, they often recognize the symptom but not the root problem
- How then can I help them?
- I need to ask the right questions and then listen to their answers
- What do you feel is the key element here? Asking better questions?
- And you can’t ask better questions unless you listen to the complete answer
So what is your takeaway, and mine, from all this?
What can you and I do better today to help ourselves and others?
- Listen more
- Ask better questions
That sounds simple, doesn’t it?
Could it be easier said than done? Of course.
How be today you and I become better listeners and watch our results improve.
Especially when we are talking to our families……
Wishing you a blessed day
Ron
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