Course Description
Overview
If you’re facing tough challenges or struggling to generate innovative ideas, one thing is certain: You’ll never come up with new solutions if you’re bound to your old assumptions, thinking and problem-solving habits of the past.
You can broaden your perspective and break free of ruts when you sign up for Critical Thinking & Problem Solving. This LIVE, virtual, instructor-led course will help you train your brain to look at problems with a critical eye. You’ll learn how to carefully analyze current and potential outcomes, assess risks and benefits, come up with fresh creative answers to old questions and make better business decisions across the board.
Agenda
WORKSHOP AGENDA
Program time: 3 hours
Session 1: Identifying and Challenging Conventional Thinking
Overcome biases that affect your ability to think critically
Develop an inclusive, big-picture perspective that benefits from everybody’s unique contributions
Dissolve assumptions to identify underlying opportunities
Understand the importance of gathering information that both supports and refutes your personal beliefs
Discover ways to help you develop an inquisitive nature
Session 2: Generating Viable Solutions
Use strategic questions and statements to spark inquisitive interactions
Know how to ask the right questions to reach on-target conclusions
Understand how to frame a problem in terms of opportunity
Discover ways to broaden your perspective to recognize hidden value
Learn how to tap into your whole brain to promote creativity
Session 3: Making Strategic Decisions That Solve Problems
Learn how to consider problems, potential solutions and decisions in terms of their impact
Discover effective new group decision-making techniques
Understand how to organize and communicate a variety of potential solutions
Know how to evaluate and prioritize solutions to highlight the best choices
Gain the buy-in you need to make informed, supportive decisions