Critical Thinking & Problem Solving On-Site Training

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.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

• Train your brain to think more critically
• Improve your business analytical skills
• Make reasoned, more informed business decisions
• Solve everyday problems and more complex challenges
• Sharpen strategic thinking to focus on the big picture

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