Critical Thinking for Innovation in Enterprises
About This Course
Today's businesses are driven by a knowledge-based society, and the more critical you think the better your knowledge will be. Critical thinking provides you with the skills to analyse and evaluate information so that you can obtain the greatest amount of knowledge from it. It provides the best chance of making the correct decision and minimizes damage if a mistake does occur. Critical thinking also assists you in undertaking a situational analysis to verify the nature of the situation and to see whether there is a problem indeed and to address the possible implications and consequences of an action or non-action taken.
This high-impact workshop will provide you the skills to evaluate, identify and distinguish between relevant and irrelevant information. You will learn to identify and overcome deceptive reasoning and handle emotional manipulations in conversations and this will make you become a better problem solver and an effective decision maker. The workshop will introduce you to a powerful and easy to apply five stage process that will stimulate your critical thinking.
What You'll Learn
At the end of this programme, participants will be able to:
1. Demonstrate and identify with different styles of thinking and determine their personal preferences.
2. Identify how to challenge assumptions and expand perceptions about situations.
3. Identify and overcome biases and prejudice that affects your thinking.
4. Identify barriers to innovation and explain ways to overcome these barriers with critical thinking.
5. Develop a framework to apply critical thinking for innovation – the five-stage process.
6. Define problems and break down into its constituent components.
7. Arrive at better conclusions and decisions by learning to overcome groupthink mentality.
8. Apply critical thinking skills to narrow/close performance gap in problem solving process.
9. Influence and persuade others with clear thinking and Meta-cognitive language.
10. Evaluate arguments and outcome of decisions made for peak performance.
11. Apply what has been learnt to the day-to-day operation of the organization.