Today, Doug is singularly focused on igniting employee engagement through implementation of the PROACTIVE Problem Solving training programs for team members, managers and leadership. The Education Division of the Eureka! Ranch offers additional training in the full 48 skills that make up the Innovation Engineering curriculum for accelerating the front end of innovation, improving innovation systems and or building capacity for discovering and developing disruptive innovations.
PROACTIVE Problem Solving
Doug Hall Key Notes, Trainings & Executive Off Sites
“Stop the Stupid Systems and Build a Smarter, More Engaged Organization”
The way businesses operate is broken. You see it every day — inefficient systems, endless frustrations, and wasted time. Only 32% of employees are proactively engaged, while managers spend up to 3.5 hours a day fixing problems caused by flawed work systems. The result is frustration, squandered resources, and missed opportunities.
When asked why they are not proactively engaged over 6 in 10 employees say “they don’t know what to do” and or “don’t see it as their job.” Experimentation with employee groups across education levels and job titles finds that engagement is ignited through intrinsic motivation.
The starting place for this is first focusing on “stopping the stupid” work systems that prevent employees from doing their best work. This approach has received “Net promoter” scores from employees of 74, equaling the ratings of world class organizations such as Apple, Amazon and Southwest Airlines.
Whether you’re a manager striving to lead more effectively or an employee wanting to make a greater impact, PROACTIVE Problem Solving delivers actionable insights to revolutionize how work gets done. By implementing these methods, your organization can reduce costly mistakes, enhance employee satisfaction, and drive sustainable growth in today’s competitive business environment.
PROACTIVE Problem Solving training program is offered in three versions each tailored to the needs of Team Members, Managers and/or Leadership.
The Team Member program helps those who are ”closest to the worK” identify problems create solutions and drive out risk with their ideas. Completion results in an Innovation Engineering White Belt Certificate.
The Manager program teaches systemic methods and tools for enabling and engage team members in thinking smarter, faster and more creatively. It also teaches how to translate the strategic goals of leadership into clear projects and priorities for team members. Completion results in Innovation Engineering Blue Belt Certification.
The Leadership Program educates company leaders in a new way of leading that ignites engagement in PROACTIVE Problem Solving of the flawed and ineffective work systems that get in the way of employee and organizational success. It also teaches leaders a system for translating strategic goals and aspirations into meaningful action with higher odds of success and faster speed to implementation. Completion results in Innovation Engineering Black Belt Certification.
HALF Price SPEAKING EVENTS by Doug Hall During 2025 Book Intro: To enable you to experience the potential of PROACTIVE Problem Solving Doug will deliver in person or via Zoom a Key Note presentation at half price when you purchase books. To learn more about this and other special offers click here to send an email to set up a call with Doug Hall.
What Readers say about PROACTIVE Problem Solving
This is quite simply a brilliant book in it’s clarity, practical application and easily digested examples. STOP STUPID – START SMART is a simple, yet powerful thought. A must read!
Doug provides understanding and guidance on the vital importance of stimulating joy in work, by enabling employees to become part of the improvement of their work systems. When employees are engaged, a chain reaction of increased quality, efficiency and productivity is sparked.
In this tightly written volume, Doug Hall has made problem solving even easier. Read it, study it, apply it, try any or all of the techniques, and prepare to be stunningly surprised at the results!
For anyone who leads teams, serves on teams or wants their organization to perform at a high level, you need to read and truly digest PROACTIVE Problem Solving. Doug Hall’s strategies, tools and examples will help your business achieve more than you thought possible.
Only Doug Hall could make PROACTIVE Problem Solving seem so effortless. Doug’s energy for changing the world, one pioneer at a time is admirable. His unwavering determination, and relentless pursuit to teach others how to make a meaningful difference redefines what is possible.
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New or Improved Products / Services
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Classic Eureka! Inventing Missions Include
- Ideas for revitalizing growth and profitability of existing products/services
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What Clients Are Saying About Eureka! Inventing
When Doug Meets Disney, creativity ne’er wanes; our team explodes when he jump starts our brains!
We could have never accomplished by ourselves what we accomplished through our Eureka! Session.
5 out of 6 concepts we worked on with Eureka! achieved top quintile Bases cores – and one of the concepts set a new high for our company!
Speed was important to me – we needed to bring new product ideas to our executives in a two-month time frame. The Eureka! process helped us conceptualize our ideas and test them with their excellent, fast, quantitative research.
We received full-funding and senior management approval at our first presentation thanks to the work we did with Eureka!