No project is immune to challenges or complications, so, as a project leader, you’ll have to learn to respond quickly to any issues or impediments that may derail project work. Whether the problem originates internally or externally, you’ll have to employ an effective problem-solving methodology (like the one pictured below) as soon as possible to overcome trouble and keep your project on course.
Following this simple strategy and breaking the problem down into logical pieces will allow you to rapidly make sense of the situation, stay organized, and effectively come to an optimal solution. It will also help you address the underlying reason(s) for any issues you may encounter, to ensure that you are not wasting time confronting the symptoms of a problem rather than its root cause.