Problems arise in every step of the success. A founder who starts their own company has great responsibilities on their shoulders. The whole business depends upon the planning made by the founder of the company. A founder needs to become a problem-solver.
As the saying goes by Jayson Engay,
“Don’t complain you’re acing hard moments in life. Challenges yourself to ace; it challenges yourself to beat it”.
If the capability of solving the problems is missing then the success or the growth of the business may fall.
As we can see many successful companies around the world are depending upon the decision-making and problem skills of their founders. A leader has to face a bunch of obstacles. Sometimes it’s tough to handle the situation calmly.
Here are a few skills mentioned to build a problem-solving attitude as a founder:
- Develop an active listening technique
What do you understand by Active Listening?
It shows the capability to listen with full concentration towards the opposite member or the speaker. It makes you understand the entire information with the correct intention that the speaker wants to convey.
How does it help?
Start listening to others’ advice and take note of it. The habit of listening can help you to build good relations with your customer and colleague. It also enhances your concentration power which is very necessary for a founder.
It will also help you from escaping any tiny information from your mind.
2. Keep Regular Progress Alert
What is a progress report?
A progress report is a record that is kept to notice the progress of the business. Here you will get all the information regarding the progress of the company.
A student gets progress reports to show their improvement. In the same way, it’s the progress report of the company that shows its progress. One can improve the weaker section of the business by monitoring its progress.
Why it’s important?
Being a founder you should maintain a record of each task that takes place. It will help you to know which things need to be changed for the betterment of your company. It acts like an energy capsule that gives the energy to work.
3. Investigation
A proper investigation must take place as sometimes your competitor may play a foul game behind your back. Always conduct a deep investigation of every small problem. Things that you neglect can become a big issue in the future therefore investigation is needed for every small thing which occurs.
The well-being of the company and the employees depend on you. When you start maintaining this, your employees will work with the company from their heart.
4. Positive Attitude
The word ‘Positive’ itself attracts the positivity around it. Your positive nature will make you feel confident. Anger and negativity might destroy the whole progress of a business, you might be trapped in a problematic environment.
Positivity will keep you in a fresh mode to deal with the situation. When you are nervous or angry you might take the wrong decision.
As many psychologists say, positivity improves the mind to detect problems and helps you stay calm in every difficult situation. A founder has to go through various obstacles and that is why it’s essential to keep yourself strong and calm.
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5. Learning attitude
Studying different articles and books might improve the strategies for growing and building a strong business. A founder should adopt this habit. It will provide numerous types of ideas to solve the problems.
Always remember the quote of John Carrick
“Knowledge is the greatest power and it is something no one can see. It cannot be stolen or broken, No one can take it from you”.
Knowledge never goes waste. So, it is wrong to think that “I am earning a good amount and I don’t need to learn”. You have to come out of this attitude and develop the learning spirit.
6. Discipline
Discipline is something that cannot be taught, it comes from the inner soul. A founder should have the proper discipline to maintain the growth of a company. Discipline should also be reflected towards the worker and the customer to have a good relationship with them.
Once Jim Rohn said, “ Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplished.”
If the founder is only indisciplined then the growth of the company of fails day by day. Your disciplined behavior will earn lots of respect and love from others and that will help you in achieving your goals too.
7. Time Management
Time management plays a vital role in the business field. If the work is not done within the given time, progress in the company slowly dissolves. The founder should follow effective time management skills to maintain the company’s decorum.
Every second is important so don’t waste time on useless topics. Time management is like savings if you didn’t spend it wisely then it will be lost and you will not get a second chance to utilize it.
When you are completing your task before the deadlines, customers and your colleagues are satisfied and they stay connected with you for a long period.
8. Confidence
Confidence brings positive nature within yourself though you are in a problematic situation. Try to be confident enough to handle the problems which are coming towards you in every step of your success.
It increases your willingness to play with problems and also helps you to come out of your comfort zone. Confidence removes anxiety and fear within yourself
Let’s see how can we grow confident within ourselves-
- Develop a helping attitude and never hesitate to ask.
- It’s necessary to keep the proper posture during interaction with others.
- Keep the focus on your goal.
- Keep a record of your mistakes and start working on them to improve.
9. Adjustment
Adjustment does not show weak behavior within yourself. In some cases, the adjustment may play a vital role in problem-solving. Your little adjustment can save you from being involved in problematic situations.
Don’t feel shy to adjust to certain places. To achieve goals you need to do adjustments to certain things. To boost your success you need to make adjustments.
10. Meditation
Meditation helps in growing a problem-solving attitude. Meditation refreshes the mind and feels relaxed from the daily stress. It improves concentration power.
Regular meditation will help you to deal with problems without getting annoyed with every small problem. Let’s see how meditation helps us-
- Increase memorization power.
- Help to stay away from negativity.
- Improves the power of creativity.
- Decrease the stress.
- Helps you to get focused on your goal.
11. Be updated
Keep updating yourself with the upcoming situation. It will remove the space or the gap between you and the new generation. It will help you in the future to solve any problem and stay more productive.
It can’t be wrong to say that the growth of the company is somehow related to the new technology, if you are not aware of those then you will most likely fail.
12. Take help from a mentor
An experienced person might show you the right path to step into it so don’t hesitate to ask for help. Here are some points which will help you to know what is the need of taking help from an experienced person-
- Their way of thinking is better as they know when and where things are to be done.
- As they have achieved many goals in their life so they know how to find a way to achieve success.
- They know what is the need of a customer and an employee.
13. Friendly Nature
A friendly behavior creates a positive image for your customer and your business partner. It will help you to keep them connected and also create a bond of trust between the customers and employees.
Sometimes your friendly behavior keeps you calm in every difficult situation. It helps to eliminate stress and spread positivity around yourself. It makes you capable of not getting scared of the problems
A Final Word
Always have a positive attitude towards all the problems that come across the success of the goal. Business completely depends on the pillars of good planning, planning smartly to make the pillars stronger.
Always be aware of your competitor as they are finding some way to create a problematic situation in front of you.
We forget that until and unless we solve the core of each problem, we might trap in a never-ending cycle. One should not follow any shortcut methods to achieve the goal.
Written by: Priya Chowdhary (Intern at NxtDecade)
