Many people tend to raise problems without offering solutions. It’s important that problems are raised, even if solutions haven’t been identified. But it’s frustrating when someone consistently points out problems without proposing solutions, as if that is a job for someone else. In this video, Tatiana Kolovou provides a few approaches for handling this: encouraging collaboration with others, facilitating brainstorming with that person and others, and helping thinkers to transition to communicating and problem-solving. Listen in as Tatiana Kolovou explains how.

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