Problem to Opportunity exercise

 Let see your team has a problem, and they turn to you to find a solution. 

As a coach it is better not to provide a solution, they have find their solution, because they will find the connection and see they are the owner of the solution. They can do commitment more easily to deliver the solution.

Opportunity Tree Analysis

Lets invite the team for a workshop to find a solution for a problem.

The Opportunity tree analysis is a very good practice for this.

Let's create a  Tree about a problem, and then find the desired situation of the problem.

Try to identify what could support this desired situation. Later you can collect together the possible outcome of this positive, desired situation.

Example of "I am tired"

We selected a personal or general problem to solve and see the outcomes.

1) The problem tree:

We placed in the roots of the tree what could support this problem. Just a few ones are:

• eating to much
• sickness
• lack of quality sleeping
• stress etc.

2) Now lets create the Opportunity tree. We selected "I am energized!"

So when you think about with the team what could support I am energized, you can find a lot of positive things, just a few:

• fun
• health
• hope
• vision
• calm etc

3) The green leaves can be the outcome of you are energized.

• Enjoy the work
• Help each other
• Love
• Focus
• Energize others

You can see in a one hour exercise we can help the team to focus on the positive side of the problem, and seeing the opportunity of the original problem if we turn to the solutions.

We have the yellow postits as solution and the green postits as the reason why to do that.