Analytical thinking is a modern approach that helps you make decisions and solve challenges faster and more effectively.
It involves breaking problems into parts, using deductive reasoning, and drawing conclusions from evidence and assumptions. You’ll learn to think both creatively and logically, approach challenges with clarity, and improve your decision-making skills.
In this seminar, we’ll explore these thinking approaches, introduce practical methods and tools, and help you apply them in everyday life— from simple decisions to complex problems.
Course Objectives
- How to correctly diagnose and understand the problem
- Ways to break down potential causes and focus on the problem
- Creative methods to find solutions
- Utilizing your team to expand possible ideas
- Distinguish between problem solving and decision making, in order to identify true decisions
- Recognize how your feelings about uncertainty and risk impact the way you make decisions
- How to use your natural thinking to make effective decisions
- Identifying possible roadblocks
- Overcoming resistance to change
- Avoiding decision-making traps
- Winning support for your solutions
- Apply tools and techniques for sharpening analytical and intuitive aspects of decision making
- More deliberately apply personal experience to complex decision making under conditions of uncertainty
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Define the Problem
- Isolate the real problem, not just the symptoms
- When you should ask “Why?” to diagnose the problem
- Key questions that help you quickly and accurately define the problem
- Identifying and understanding the scope of the problem
Identify Root Causes
- Free your mind and overcome assumptions and biases
- How to stop yourself from taking your best guess
- Go beyond the obvious for lasting solutions that work
- Search for multiple causes to fully solve the problem
Identify Viable Solutions
- Find multiple solutions to make the best decision
- Identify alternate solutions for a problem
- Stop personal judgment from influencing your solutions
- Does your risk preference stop you from making decisions?
Psychological Factors
- Identify Personal Attitudes Toward Decision Making
- Articulate the Common Reasons for Decision Avoidance
- Describe the Key Cause of Decisions Made in Haste
- Apply Techniques to Avoid Common Decision Pitfalls
Get Creative!
- The role of creativity in finding the best solutions
- How to spark creativity in groups
- Keep creative ideas alive rather than succumbing to naysayers
- Get a new perspective and look at challenges in new ways
- Find patterns and common elements in problems
Test Potential Solutions
- How to select and test realistic and practical solutions
- Identify potential resistance and other roadblocks
- How and when you should consider the consequences
- Conduct a postmortem on your solution
Make Effective Decisions
- Use your natural thinking and decision-making style
- Overcome weaknesses that can derail your decision making
- Learn the most common decision-making strategies
Win Support for Solutions
- Tactics for getting stakeholder buy-in
- Identify and address questions and objections early
- Essential strategies for overcoming resistance to change
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