We often waste our limited attention on unimportant issues or procrastinate on the issues that are important. Instead, we should always start by checking whether the issue we are facing really deserve our focus by validating why it is important both to us and other stakeholders to resolve.

When faced with an important problem or opportunity, we often jump to a solution or simply look for someone to blame. Instead, we should identify the underlying conflict we face in dealing with this issue and listing the unique Pros and unique Cons both of the “Change” and “No Change” options we have. And if we are in fact blaming someone for causing the issue we are facing now (either ourselves or someone else), we should also put ourselves in “their” shoes and define their conflict conflict and the unique Pros and Cons of the action they took that we believed caused our problem and also the unique Pros and Cons of what we believe they should have done that could have prevented the problem or situation we are now facing.

We often focus on only one possible resolution or simply to look for a compromise. Instead, we should consider the four alternative win/win options that can resolve any conflict with more pros and less cons than the status quo. Dr. Barnard called these four options “Change++”, “No Change++”, “When+When Not” and “Another Change”. They are created by thinking about what we can add rather than what we have to give up

We often ignore valid reservations— “Yes-Buts”—or use them as excuses not to act. Instead, we should use the valid Yes-Buts to create an even more robust solution and to build a “YES-AND” plan to implement our “fully baked” solution.

We often only partially implement solutions. Instead, we should create experiments that allow us to fully test our new solutions.

In this video, the Professor shares with Jason the process he can use to help him make the decision on what to do about the disharmony he has at work with his co-workers as a result of their resistance to changes he is proposing to make things better, faster and easier for everyone.

In this second video, the Professor introduces Jason to the ProConCloud process – a problem solving and decision-making process which is an evolution of Benjamin Franklin’s Pro/Con List and Dr. Eli Goldratt’s Change Matrix and Evaporating Cloud methods that maintain their benefits while addressing their limitations. The ProConCloud process consists of 5 steps, each designed to overcome one of the 5 most common decision mistakes we make which wastes our scarcest resource – our limited attention.

Learn how to use the first two steps of the new ProConCloud process to tell your story about an important problem or challenge you are facing and the associated conflicts you experience in dealing with it and also the one you blame (yourself or someone else).

​​Click the link below to register and complete the first two steps on our award-winning software Harmony .