Unlock your teams critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
This masterclass addresses the common barriers to thinking in organisations, provide tools to overcome those barriers, and show how to model different thinking. This is a course for anyone looking to unlock, unstuck, and unleash the thinking power of their team.
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What will you gain?
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Understand what prevents your team from thinking critically, creatively, or more often;
- Identify the common barriers in groups and organisations to thinking critically, creatively, or more often;
- Understand a range of tools that you can use to unlock your teams thinking and problem-solving tools; and
- Design strategies for creating workplaces and team settings that maximise the thinking potential of your team.
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Course structure泭
This intensive one-day course is divided in four parts:
Part One Well discover what stops us, as individuals, from thinking more critically, creatively, or often.泭 In the process well explore how the brain really works, where cognitive biases come from, and why its so hard for people to change their minds.
Part Two Well explore why being in groups makes thinking harder still. Well talk about how people are often unwittingly influenced by power and charisma, and how even the best organisations set limits on how their staff think. In the process well see why even in the best organisations - inertia and the status quo are stubborn obstacles to better thinking.
Part Three Well see how thinking is a skill that anyone can learn when the settings are right. Well see how difficult it is to unlearn old habits, especially in the fast-paced workplaces of 2023. To sustain those efforts, well learn some simple thinking hacks your team can use every day.
Part Four Well channel Socrates and raid his critical thinking toolkit to outline how managers can help their team become better thinkers. In the process well see how better thinking is as much about workplace culture as it is better evidence.
