Through a series of interactive small-group workshops, you gain practical decision-making skills using critical thinking and creative problem-solving techniques. The course includes:

·         Profiling your personal thinking style and the styles of others

·         Identifying personal and team roadblocks to success

·         Analyzing left- and right-brain characteristics

·         Leading through speaking in another style

·         Applying logical methodologies to transform a range of creative options into supportable decisions

·         Preparing a framework to present your decision

·         Developing your personal decision-making toolkit

·         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 to foster an innovative work environment

·         Systematically analyze a target problem

·         Present your ideas clearly and concisely for maximum stakeholder buy-in

·         Transform your creativity into practical business solutions

Individuals at any level of an organization who want to apply creativity and critical thinking skills to their decision-making process.

Leveraging Personal Thinking Styles

Introduction

·         Balancing people, processes and tools for optimal decisions

·         Business drivers that demand creative problem solving

·         Deciphering critical thinking

The Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument (HBDI)

·         MacLean's Triune Brain Theory

·         Assessing your preferred approach to thinking

·         Leveraging whole-brain thinking

·         Identifying left/right-brain dominance

Analyzing personal preferences

·         Identifying your own natural brain dominance

·         Determining non dominant approaches

Managing thinking preferences

·         Avoiding quadrant bias

·         Bridging opposing styles

·         Predicting coworker profiles

Unleashing Your Creativity

The creative environment

·         Setting the creative stage

·         The power of positive communication

·         Identifying elements that stimulate creativity

·         Eliminating barriers to innovation

Group creative thinking

·         Brainstorming options

·         Challenging assumptions

·         Dispelling personal and corporate myths

The iterative mind

·         Moving between quadrants

·         Valuing non dominant preferences

·         Stretching outside your personal style

Recording the creative process

·         Drawing mind maps

·         Chart writing

Solving Problems Using Analysis and Prioritization

Systematic approaches to problem solving

·         Defining criteria

·         Focusing on outcomes

·         Leveraging left-brain thinkers

·         Applying questioning techniques

·         Deconstructing problems using stair-step techniques

Analyzing the creative process

·         Identifying business-critical ideas

·         Categorizing, prioritizing and purging

Avoiding analysis paralysis

·         Overcoming the "It won't work here" mentality

·         The Five Monkeys Syndrome or "But we've always done it this way"

·         Analyzing for outcomes, not solutions

Applying analysis models

·         Situation assessment

·         Decision analysis

·         Problem evaluation

Translating Creativity and Analysis into Practical Application

Organizational politics

·         Recognizing the workplace culture

·         Maintaining outcome-focused goals

The influence of decision-making styles

·         Recognizing your own blind spots

·         Self-awareness and self-regulation

·         Forming a coalition with style opposites

Deploying your decision

·         Clearly expressing analysis results

·         Ensuring organizational benefit

·         Guaranteeing maximum buy-in

Putting It All Together

Integrating your solution into the business

·         Creating a whole-brain presentation

·         Strengthening your non dominant position

·         Adjusting communication to thinking styles

·         Transforming confrontation into communication

Continuing your development

·         Conducting self-checks

·         Being persistent: a key trait of successful creative

·         Mapping thinking skills to your business

Your Personal Decision-Making Toolkit

·         Your personal thinking style

·         Your stakeholders' styles

·         Flexing to colleagues' styles

·         Committing to your Personal Action Plan

·         Checklists for success

A variety of methodologies will be used during the course that includes:

·         (30%) Based on Case Studies

·         (30%) Techniques 

·         (30%) Role Play

·         (10%) Concepts

·         Pre-test and Post-test

·         Variety of Learning Methods

·         Lectures

·         Case Studies and Self Questionaires

·         Group Work

·         Discussion

·         Presentation

This rate includes participant’s manual, Hand-Outs, buffet lunch, coffee/tea on arrival, morning & afternoon of each day.

Daily Course Timings:

    08:00 - 08:20       Morning Coffee / Tea

    08:20 - 10:00       First Session

    10:00 - 10:20       Coffee / Tea / Snacks

    10:20 - 12:20       Second Session

    12:20 - 13:30       Lunch Break & Prayer Break

    13:30 - 15:00       Last Session