Course Overview:

This Practical Practical Problem Solving and Decision Making Training course, to be delivered in Limerick, is a 1 Day Public Programme designed to develop your skills as a critical thinker and problem solver using tools and techniques based on cutting-edge, whole-brain technologies. Critical thinking and creative solutions to problems significantly enhance business potential. Decision makers must employ a variety of methodologies and creative processes to achieve competitive advantage.

Our Practical Practical Problem Solving and Decision Making Programme is also available for delivery as a Customised In-Company Course at clients facilities nationwide in Ireland, including Dublin, Cork, Limerick & Galway.

At Course Completion:

• Make better decisions through critical thinking and creative problem solving
• Adapt to different thinking styles in group and team environments
• Recognize and remove barriers to individual and group creativity
• Transform your creativity into practical business solutions

Pre-requirements:

This course is valuable for anyone who makes decisions at any level of the organization to achieve competitive advantage.

Participants Study:

• Problem & Opportunity Identification
• Problem Solving Process
• Defining Problems
• Goal Setting and Vision Creation
• Creative techniques
• Critical Thinking
• Effective Decision Making

Course Contents:

Introduction & objectives

• Personal & programme objectives
• Review of assignment

Problem & opportunity identification

• How to spot them?
• Is there a difference?

Problem solving processes

Defining problems

• The difference between problems and symptoms

Goal setting and vision creation

• Creating the vision
• Plotting the course in actionable goals

Creative techniques

• Brainstorming (the right way)
• Bisociation
• NYAKA
• Merlin

Critical thinking techniques

• Reality Vs perception
• Establishing facts
• Identifying the relevant information

Effective decision-making

• Purpose, goal or end in view
• Issue or problem to be solved
• Assumptions
• Frame of reference (world view and role)
• Empirical evidence
• Concepts
• Inferences
• Results or consequences

Reviewing decisions and drawing lessons from the results

Note: The above syllabus may change during the training course to provide more detail in aspects, which have been ascertained to be of greater value to the trainee.

Award: Procad Training Certificate of Completion