Course Description
Analytical thinking is a new approach that helps you make decisions and solve challenges faster and easier than ever before
“There’s more than one way to skin a cat.”
How many times have you heard that phrase in your lifetime? It may be completely overused, but it’s
entirely true. For every problem that pops up, there are several different solutions. However, finding
the RIGHT solution is the key to success.
If you’re like most people, you’ve probably read the books ... watched the videos ... participated in
creativity camps ... all promising different ways to help you solve your problems. Some may have even
partially worked. But none of them will be as successful as solving your problems analytically.
Analytical problem solving is a new approach that will help you make decisions faster and easier. It
may sound complicated, but it’s actually the easiest and most effective way to cut to the chase to get
you the RIGHT solution. Every time.
Decision-Making & Problem-Solving Skills With Analytical Thinking helps you learn how to think like
an analyst. You’ll learn how to think creatively and logically ... how to approach your challenges
analytically ... and how to understand the decision-making process to solve your problems more
efficiently and successfully.
Here’s just a sample of what you’ll learn:
- How to correctly diagnose and understand the problem
- Ways to break down potential causes and focus on the problem
- Creative methods to find solutions
- Utilizing your team to expand possible ideas
- How to use your natural thinking to make effective decisions
- Identifying possible roadblocks
- Overcoming resistance to change
- Avoiding decision-making traps
- Winning support for your solutions
Take the first step toward finding the solution to your toughest challenges. Enroll today and learn how
to think clearly so you can make great decisions.
Agenda
Define the Problem
- Isolate the real problem, not just the symptoms
- When you should ask “Why?” to diagnose
the problem
- Key questions that help you quickly AND accurately
define the problem
- Identifying and understanding the scope of the
problem and why it’s important
Identify Root Causes
- Free your mind and overcome assumptions and biases
- How to stop yourself from taking your best guess
- Go beyond the obvious for lasting solutions that work
- Search for multiple causes to be sure you fully solve
the problem
Identify Viable Solutions
- How to find multiple solutions so you have options to
make the best decision
- How to identify alternate solutions for a problem
- How to stop personal judgment from influencing your
ability to try solutions/solve problems
- Does your risk preference stop you from making
decisions? Find out
Get Creative!
- The role of creativity in coming up with the best
possible solutions (from the obvious to the absurd)
- How to spark creativity in groups
- How to keep creative ideas alive rather than letting
them succumb to naysayers
- What consequences? End your worry about what
“could happen”
- Get a new perspective and look at your challenges in
new ways
- How to find patterns and common elements in
problems — and what that means
- Learn how to generate ideas and not evaluate them
Test Potential Solutions
- How to select and test realistic and practical solutions
- Identify potential resistance and other roadblocks
- How and when you should consider the consequences
- Conduct a postmortem on your solution to be sure it
accomplished all you thought it would
Make Effective Decisions
- How to use your natural thinking and decision-making
style to full advantage
- Overcoming weaknesses that can derail your decisionmaking
process
- Learn the most common decision-making strategies
Win Support for Solutions
- Tactics for getting stakeholder buy-in
- How to identify and address questions and objections
before they come up
- Essential strategies for overcoming resistance
to change
Comments
Cancelation Policy: If you cannot attend an event, you may send someone else in your place. If that isn’t an option for you, cancellations received up to five working days before the event are refundable, minus a registration service charge ($10 for one-day events; $25 for multiple-day events). After that, cancellations are subject to the entire seminar fee, which you may apply toward a future seminar. Please note that if you don’t cancel and don’t attend, you are still responsible for payment.