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18 results (expanded search) for "diagnosis"
Administrative
ADKAR Readiness Diagnosis
Each affected employee: score 5 dimensions — awareness, desire, knowledge, ability, reinforcement.
Leadership
Multiplier vs. Diminisher Diagnosis
Determine if you multiply your team's intelligence or drain it via 5 specific leader behaviors.
Leadership
Ideal Team Player Diagnosis
3 virtues (Humble, Hungry, Smart) for ideal team player. Diagnose your team against them.
Leadership
High-Performance Team Diagnosis (Katzenbach)
6 criteria: small number, complementary skills, common purpose, performance goals, work approach, mutual accountability.
Leadership
Identifying Loyalties: To Whom Does Each Person Owe Allegiance?
People resist change not from laziness, but because their loyalties are at risk. Discover the loyalty before expecting movement.
Leadership
Coaching Through a Plateau
When someone's progress stalls despite real effort, look for what changed in their performance pattern, not just "less motivation".
Administrative
Managing the Difficult Stakeholder
Before labeling someone "difficult", diagnose the specific type: are they anxious, ignored, or genuinely conflicted in interest?
Parenting
Child's Mood Wheel
Use the visual emotion-wheel to pinpoint what your child feels before intervening.
Professional
Pre-Mortem
Before executing decision, imagine it failed in a year, enumerate most likely failure causes.
Social
Broken Record for Repeated Pressure
Repeat the same refusal in the same words calmly, no matter how the other person reshapes the pressure.
Social
The Apology-Free No
Say no in three sentences: thanks, refusal, closing — with no "sorry" or justification.
Social
The Ready-No Sentence
Memorize one 7-word refusal sentence and rehearse it until it emerges automatically under pressure.
Social
No Without Apology
Say "no, I can't" — complete sentence. No explanation, no apology.
Administrative
Go to the Gemba
Don't analyze a problem from your desk. Go where it happens and observe 30 minutes before suggesting a fix.
Administrative
Diagnosing Team Stage with Tuckman Model
Identify which of four stages your team sits in today, and adapt your leadership style accordingly instead of using one fixed approach.
Leadership
Coaching for Confidence vs. Coaching for Competence
First diagnose: does the person lack an actual skill (competence), or have it but not trust using it (confidence)? The treatment is entirely different for each.
Leadership
Distinguishing Technical vs. Adaptive Challenges
Before solving any problem, ask: do we need an expert with a ready answer (technical), or do the people themselves need to change (adaptive)?
Parenting
Neurodivergent Strengths (Armstrong)
Instead of "fixing" ADHD/autism/dyslexia deficits, daily show your child the strengths of his different brain.