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Smart Thinking! Essential Thinking Skills For Leaders
This course features a business-oriented system that helps individuals, teams and organizations think better and work smarter in today's rapidly changing workplace. The skills are simple to understand, easy to use, and broad enough to apply to any situation.
This course qualifies towards the following certificate(s):
- Executive Development
- Management Excellence
Special Features
This course includes a profiling tool that assesses our preferences and natural strengths in real-world situations.
Takeaways
Attending this course will enable you to:
- learn more effective ways of thinking to generate new ideas, solve problems, make decisions and serve customers better
- identify and maximize your intellectual assets
- shift to the most appropriate thinking style for any situation
- complete tasks faster, with fewer mental errors
- strengthen team creativity and performance
- work collaboratively in complex situations
Course Content
- What is your dominant thinking style, what types of tasks and situations do you prefer, what do you need to become a more skillful thinker
- Four major dimensions of high performance
- Seven mindsets: benefits and limitations of each
- Twenty-one strategies to expand your thinking ability
- Application of practical thinking skills: smart thinking using 'fast tracks,' overcoming obstacles to creativity, using smart thinking to manage conflict, make presentations and plan meetings
- Managing team smarts: capitalizing on diversity in thinking, coaching for performance, improving thinking, creativity and productivity in meetings
