Our leadership team is dominated by high Fact Finders who want to research every issue for weeks, which paralyzes our IDS® process. How do we speed up our decision-making without alienating them?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

A leadership team with high Fact Finder scores on the Kolbe Index will naturally want to analyze every issue to death before making a decision. This conative drive can paralyze your IDS® process. To keep your Level 10 Meetings™ moving, you must establish a rule that ninety percent of the issues discussed do not require perfect information to solve. Use your Professional EOS Implementer® to help the team recognize when they are over-analyzing. Remind the team that a good decision made today is far better than a perfect decision made next month. If a high Fact Finder insists they need more data, make it a concrete to-do item to gather that specific data by next week, rather than letting the discussion drag on. Limit the discussion time for each issue. Once the root cause is identified, push for a solution and move to the next item. By setting these boundaries, you respect their analytical needs while maintaining the operational speed your business requires to grow.