Developing Creative and Critical Thinking Skills

Overview

The world is changing fast and the challenges organizations face today are much more complex and trickier than the ones we faced a few decades ago. To survive and thrive organizations need to have all stakeholders who understand and can implement genuine creativity, and innovation, and deliver ground-breaking new solutions and activities on a sustained basis. New strategies and ideas require the ability to employ creative thinking, as well as the skills to think critically about solution implementation effectively.

Having the right skills in design thinking, creativity, and critical thinking will lead to collaborations across an organization and also serve to improve constructive dialogue as future challenges arrive. These skills can also help create the right environment for a real and much broader understanding of the voice of colleagues and relevant stakeholders. It is extremely useful in developing strategies, preventive action plans, and tackling situations that are ill-defined or unknown, by re-framing the problem in human-centric ways, developing ideas, and adopting a practical approach in prototyping and testing. Most importantly, it helps business people to be more creative, amplify outcomes and create different strategies for the workplace or business improvement.

This training program will trainees to acquire new ways to conceive radically creative, critical ideas and solutions, create a vision that gains buy-in, and develop new possibilities ideas, and solutions that people love, emotionally and intellectually. The trainees will gain the hands-on experience they need to pioneer design-thinking in a creative and critical atmosphere and motivation in their workplace.

Objective

The course aims to build the trainees with the mindset of thinking out of the box in both the workplace and everyday situations by enabling them the confidence to think and make their view comes to reality through possessing the ability to see a comprehensive view of any situation to make informed ideas, strategies, decisions, and innovative solutions. Therefore, upon completion of this training program, the trainees are expected to have the ability to:

  • Understand the importance of critical and creative thinking skills
  • Create conditions for the development of critical and creative thinking in the organization
  • Overcome creative blocks and challenge existing approaches to workplace issues
  • Develop flexible, creative, and well-motivated teams
  • Combine both creative and critical thinking to approach strategies with sound judgment by offering innovative solutions and strategies

Content

This training will cover the most important below 4 modules:

  • Module 1: Design Thinking Overview
  • Module 2: Adopting Creative Thinking for Critical Thinkers
  • Module 3: Critical Thinking Concept and Elements
  • Module 4: Creative and Critical Thinking in Action

Who should Attend?

This training benefits working professionals including heads of department, managers, supervisors, team leaders, and anyone who wants to take their critical and creative thinking to make the right moves and decisions. Specifically, this course is perfect for:

  • Managers/Head of Department
  • Supervisors/Team Leaders
  • Project Supervisors/Team Leaders/Managers
  • Business professionals who want to take their critical thinking to the next level by using both their experience and intuition to make the right moves and decisions.

Trainer's Profile

He is currently a Managing Director for one of the leading office materials suppliers and a freelance business advisor and mentor to many businesses. He is a certified business trainer with more than 15 years of experience in delivering Critical and Creative Thinking programs as one of his expertise.

Fee Charged

The course fee is USD 270.00. It is inclusive of course materials, handouts, meals, refreshments, and certificates of completion but does exclude 10% of VAT amount.

We are offering an early bird registration fee to anyone who registers earlier. Interested participants or companies are encouraged to view the course details and early bird registration deadline. For further details on the early bird fee, please find the following:

  • USD 230 (Register before 26 September 2024)
  • USD 250 (Register before 5 October 2024)