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Critical Thinking and Creative Problem Solving

Making Better Decisions
 
Course: 284   Type: Course Workshops   Duration: 3 Days
 
 

You Will Learn How To

  • Make better decisions through critical thinking and creative problem solving
  • Adapt to different thinking styles in group and team environments
  • Recognise and remove barriers to individual and group creativity to foster an innovative work environment
  • Systematically analyse a target problem
  • Present your ideas clearly and concisely for maximum stakeholder buy-in
  • Transform your creativity into practical business solutions

Course Benefits

Successful organisations recognise that critical thinking and creative solutions to problems significantly enhance business potential. Today's decision makers must use a variety of thinking styles, methodologies and creative processes. In this course, you develop your skills as a critical thinker and problem solver. You learn to leverage your personal thinking preferences using tools and techniques based on cutting-edge technologies.

Who Should Attend

Individuals at any level of an organisation who want to apply creativity and critical thinking skills to their decision-making process.

Course Workshops

Through a series of interactive small-group workshops, you gain practical decision-making skills using critical thinking and creative problem-solving techniques. Workshops include:
  • Profiling your personal thinking style and the styles of others
  • Identifying personal and team roadblocks to success
  • Analysing left- and right-brain characteristics
  • Leading through speaking in another style
  • Applying logical methodologies to transform a range of creative options into supportable decisions
  • Preparing a framework to present your decision
  • Developing your personal decision-making toolkit

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  • 294 Influence Skills
  • 341 Negotiation Skills
  • 905 Facilitation Skills
  • 345 Delivering Dynamic Presentations
  • 381 Business Process Re-engineering
  • 290 Management Skills
  • 344 Effective Time Management
  • 297 Personal Skills for Professional Excellence

 
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   Critical Thinking and Problem Solving

Upcoming Dates

19 - 21 Nov, 2008
London
4 - 6 Feb, 2009
London
22 - 24 Apr, 2009
London
29 - 31 Jul, 2009
London

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Critical Thinking and Creative Problem Solving

Making Better Decisions
 
Course: 284   Type: Course Workshops   Duration: 3 Days   PMI: 17
 
 
Course Content
 

Introduction

  • Balancing people, processes and tools for optimal decisions
  • Business drivers that demand creative problem solving
  • Deciphering critical thinking

Leveraging Personal Thinking Styles

The Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument (HBDI)

  • MacLean's Triune Brain Theory
  • Assessing your preferred approach to thinking
  • Leveraging whole-brain thinking
  • Identifying left/right-brain dominance

Analysing personal preferences

  • Identifying your own natural brain dominance
  • Determining non-dominant approaches

Managing thinking preferences

  • Avoiding quadrant bias
  • Bridging opposing styles
  • Predicting co-worker profiles

Unleashing Your Creativity

The creative environment

  • Setting the creative stage
  • The power of positive communication
  • Identifying elements that stimulate creativity
  • Eliminating barriers to innovation

Group creative thinking

  • Brainstorming options
  • Challenging assumptions
  • Dispelling personal and corporate myths

The iterative mind

  • Moving between quadrants
  • Valuing non-dominant preferences
  • Stretching outside your personal style

Recording the creative process

  • Drawing mind maps
  • Chart writing

Solving Problems Using Analysis and Prioritisation

Systematic approaches to problem solving

  • Defining criteria
  • Focusing on outcomes
  • Leveraging left-brain thinkers
  • Applying questioning techniques
  • Deconstructing problems using stair-step techniques

Analysing the creative process

  • Identifying business-critical ideas
  • Categorising, prioritising and purging

Avoiding analysis paralysis

  • Overcoming the "It won't work here" mentality
  • The Five Monkeys Syndrome or "But we've always done it this way"
  • Analysing for outcomes, not solutions

Applying analysis models

  • Situation assessment
  • Decision analysis
  • Problem evaluation

Translating Creativity and Analysis into Practical Application

Organisational politics

  • Recognising the workplace culture
  • Maintaining outcome-focused goals

The influence of decision-making styles

  • Recognising your own blind spots
  • Self-awareness and self-regulation
  • Forming a coalition with style opposites

Deploying your decision

  • Clearly expressing analysis results
  • Ensuring organisational benefit
  • Guaranteeing maximum buy-in

Putting It All Together

Integrating your solution into the business

  • Creating a whole-brain presentation
  • Strengthening your non-dominant position
  • Adjusting communication to thinking styles
  • Transforming confrontation into communication

Continuing your development

  • Conducting self-checks
  • Being persistent: a key trait of successful creatives
  • Mapping thinking skills to your business

Your Personal Decision-Making Toolkit

  • Your personal thinking style
  • Your stakeholders' styles
  • Flexing to colleagues' styles
  • Committing to your Personal Action Plan
  • Checklists for success
 
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Critical Thinking and Creative Problem Solving Tuition

Making Better Decisions
 
Course: 284   Type: Course Workshops   Duration: 3 Days   PMI: 17
 
 

Course 284 Tuition

£ 1,395Standard Tuition
Tuition with a Savings Plan
£ 73510-Day Training Pass
£ 995Flex-Training Pass
£ 1,31410-Training Vouchers
£ 1,4045-Training Vouchers
£ 1,255Alumni Gold Tuition

Your Course Fee Entitles You To...

  • Class participation
  • Team workshops
  • Use of in-class hands-on equipment
  • Comprehensive course materials
  • Morning and afternoon refreshments
  • Lunch
  • Course Completion Certificate
  • FREE participation in the Learning Tree Professional Certification Programmes (including related exams)
  
 

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  • As little as £995
  • Savings as much as 50%
  • 3 courses in 24 months
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  • Save as much as £770 per course
  • Any combination of courses
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  • Save as much as £681 per course
  • Fully transferable
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