If there are nine people in a room and every person shakes hands exactly once with each of the other people, how many handshakes will there be? How can you prove your answer is correct using a model ...

Are you stuck with workplace problems that you can't solve? Make your problem front and center. When you say that you're "a firefighter," you don't mean the firefighter who runs into buildings with ...

Tucker, A. L., and Amy C. Edmondson. "Managing Routine Exceptions: A Model of Nurse Problem Solving Behavior." Advances in Health Care Management 3 (2002): 87–113.

This post summarizes key research and tips from the “Unicorn and Flute Problems” episode of our podcast, Talk Psych to Me. Available on Apple, Spotify, and wherever you get your podcasts. We have a ...

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The puzzles look easy, and mostly they are. Given three words “trip,” “house” and “goal,” for example find a fourth that will complete a compound word with each. A minute or so of mental trolling ...

In coaching others, I often discuss problem-solving strategies to help individuals think creatively and consider many options when they are faced with challenging situations. Problem solving 1-2 ...

Problem-solving is a key transferable skill, developing the use of strategic planning, logic, curiosity, an exploratory mindset and creativity across many disciplines. Problem-solving tasks can take ...