Managing With What is There
The Power of Internal Solutions © 2004, Coert Visser When your organization is not functioning well you hire a consultant. When the workload in your team is too high you hire a new employee. When team members don’t perform well you send them to a training program. All of that sounds logical but it isn’t. Very often problems can be solved without help from outside of the organization by making better use of what is already there. Managers can learn to utilize more effectively the chances, strengths, resources that are already available in the organization. That is not only cheaper than to rely on external help but often also more effective. Moreover, the organization becomes more independent. Internal Solutions When confronted with problems many managers tend to reach out for external solutions, solutions that are not yet available with in the organization. External solutions, like hiring a consultant, implementing a new management tool or hiring a new employee, often seem required to s...