Course Description

COURSE OVERVIEW:

Thinking – or reasoning – involves objectively connecting present beliefs with evidence in order to believe something else but Critical Thinking is a deliberate meta-cognitive (thinking about the thinking) and cognitive (thinking) act whereby a person reflects on the quality of the reasoning process simultaneously while reasoning to a conclusion. The thinker has two equally important goals: coming to a solution and improving the way she or he reasons to arrive at the best conclusion.

Therefore, successful business organizations recognize that critical thinking and creative solutions significantly enhance employees’ leadership capabilities, business results and business potential. In this course, you will develop your skills as a critical thinker and problem solver and recognize and leverage your thinking preferences, as well as those on your team, to find different solutions to everyday problems.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

AT THE END OF THIS COURSE THE DELEGATES WOULD BE ABLE TO:

• Assess their own thinking and communicating style preferences through a variety of profiling and benchmarking tools
• Understand how to add value through critical thinking and innovative problem solving
• Appreciate the vital importance that communication and active listening have in building a sustainable environment, where great decisions are consistently taken
• Understand, at a detailed level, how to use a wide variety of problem solving tools effectively
• Develop their ability to think “outside the box
• Recognise the difference between solving problems and finding solution

TARGET AUDIENCE

• Team leaders Managers, Line Managers, Senior Managers

COURSE CONTENT

• Learning how to learn – a critical evaluation of our preferred style of learning
• Defining the creative environment
• Establishing the right climate
• Creative approaches explored
• Influencing for success – a critical evaluation of our preferred style of influencing
• Developing a Stakeholder Analysis – Power versus Influence
• Opportunities and Challenges as opposed to problems
• Developing a “meetings strategy” to solve problems and make decisions
• Thinking outside the box – left/right brain thinking
• Reasons for poor decisions
• Managing the risk
• Decision making applied
• Review of major learning points
• Planning the successful Team – a critical evaluation of our preferred style of team working
• The different communication styles and when to use each one
• Appreciating the diversity of others communications preferences
• Perception and communicating with others
• Defining organisational conflict in terms of how this impacts our problem solving culture
• Applying techniques to resolve conflicts

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Delivery method: This will include combine lectures, discussions, group exercises and illustrations. Participants will also understand the theoretical and practical knowledge of the topic.

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Duration: 1 week

Course Date: March 6th-10th 2023