Apply Our Problem Solving Method : Overview

As emerging scientists and engineers, you are accustomed to grappling with technical, research, and design problems in a deliberate and scientific way. The CareerWISE Problem Solving Method builds on the scientific processes that you know well but applies them to problems, like personal and professional challenges, that are different from the ones you typically address in your projects and experiments.

We present the CareerWISE Coach Problem-Solving Method, the key to handling whatever comes your way...or gets in your way! The Coach Problem-Solving Method comprises two primary components. The first is the process of problem-solving by systematically following a sequence of steps. The second is strengthening specific skills that are associated with the steps of the process. Start here to find our resources, strengthen your “bounce-back-ability” capacity, and achieve what you set out to do....

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Follow problem solving steps

Problem-Solving is a process and you will probably recognize the four steps from your scientific and technical work: Assess the Problem, Specify the Outcome, Strategize Solutions, and Execute and Evaluate.  What is unique in the Coach problem-solving process is that we help you apply these steps to personal and…

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Learn problem solving skills
Learn problem solving skills

It takes skills to implement processes. Based on a sound foundation of research in psychology and the social sciences, the CareerWISE Coach offers an array of skill-building modules.

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"The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.”

Theodore Rubin