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Critical Thinking Training
Course 284
3 DAY COURSE

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Course Outline

In this Critical Thinking Training course, you will learn how to leverage critical thinking and creative problem-solving techniques to solve organizational issues in a corporate environment. You will learn about:

  • Left and right-brain thinking
  • Spur creativity
  • Outcome-based thinking

Critical Thinking Training Benefits

  • In this leadership course, you will:

    • Learn to make better decisions through critical thinking and creative problem-solving.
    • Enhance your personal creativity through proven tools and techniques.
    • Apply critical processes to assess work issues and problems.
    • Transform your creativity into practical business solutions.
    • Continue learning and face new challenges with after-course one-on-one instructor coaching.

  • Prequisites

    None.

Critical Thinking Training Outline

Module 1: Critical Thinking and Creative Problem-Solving Essentials

In this module, you will learn how to: 

  • Apply creative problem solving in the workplace
  • Differentiate between creativity and innovation
  • Apply the steps of critical thinking and understand the connections between ideas and facts
  • Analyze and evaluate data and establish significance
  • Identify various conclusions, weigh strengths, and limitations of all possible outcomes

Module 2: Leveraging Personal Thinking Styles

In this module, you will learn how to:

  • Identify your own natural brain dominance with the Triune Brain Theory
  • Assess your preferred approach to thinking, along with your strengths and opportunities
  • Leverage your left- or right-brain dominance
  • Enhance your whole-brain thinking
  • Recognize and adapt to others’ preferred thinking styles

Module 3: Unleashing Your Creativity

In this module, you will learn how to:

  • Explore your own creativity
  • Utilize tools and techniques to become more creative
  • Identify elements that stimulate creativity
  • Eliminate barriers to innovation
  • Avoid groupthink, which can lead to poor outcomes
  • Unscramble the iterative mind
  • Move between the left and right brain
  • Value non-dominant preferences
  • Deploy divergent and convergent thinking

Module 4: Solving Problems Using Analysis and Prioritization Tools

In this module, you will learn how to:

  • Apply analysis models for problem solving
  • Set priorities for taking action to solve a problem
  • Evaluate problems around people, process and technology
  • Deconstruct problems using the stair-step technique, which focuses on solving a problem step-by-step
  • Create a satisfaction scale to help you choose the best solution

Module 5: Translating Creativity and Analysis into Practical Application

In this module, you will learn how to:

  • Overcome the "It won't work here" mentality
  • Analyze for outcomes, not solutions
  • Clearly express analysis results

Module 6: Putting It All Together

In this module, you will learn how to:

  • Reinforce your newly developed creative thinking skills
  • Construct a blueprint for your action plan
  • Educate others with creative tools
  • Practice creative and critical thinking skills
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Attendance Method

How will you be attending the class?

Selecting 'Live Virtual' allows you to attend remotely from work or home. You will receive email communication well before the class starts with detailed instructions on how to validate your equipment and connect to the classroom for a quality learning experience.

Additional Details (optional)

Private Team Training

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