Overview
What is so special about this course that you want to attend?
Learn to solve problems and generate ideas in true “think out of the box” manner – even for those who think they were not born as creative persons.
“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.”
Albert Einstein
Today’s more and more outstanding organisations acknowlege that critical thinking and creative solution to problems are key success factors to the business. You are paid according to the capacity of 'problems' you can solve for your clients. Thus, having the ability to thinking in a variety of styles and think of creative solutions determines your value in the market.
Because we ourselves are excellent problem solvers, we can help.
In this Critical, Creative Thinking and Problem Solving course, you sharpen your skills as a critical thinker and problem solver. You learn to leverage your personal thinking preferences using tools and techniques based latest thinking. Successful organizations recognize that critical thinking and creative solutions to problems significantly enhance business potential.
Learning Outcomes
- Avoid attitudes that hinder problem solving and adopt those that increase your chances of success
- Explore and define the problem systematically by viewing it from different angles and search for root causes
- Methodically generate ideas and use visual techniques to organise them into meaningful logical categories
- Use a number of established problem solving techniques to search for solutions by maximising idea generation, participation and creativity
- Make qualitative decisions by evaluating various aspects of potential solutions using a systematic method
- Plan to implement your solution by scheduling, analysing critical parts of the plan, managing resources and carrying out a requirements analysis
- Use problem solving techniques to address issues as a group
Who Must Attend
Groups of Professionals, Managers including Engineers and Technical Personnel who want breakthrough in their creativity, critical thinking, problem solving and decision making skills.
Course Details
-Thinking, Skills, Knowledge, Experience (TSKE)
-Tools, Tactics, Techniques (3Ts)
-Methods, Modes, Means (3Ms)
-Communications, Styles, Interactions (CSI)
-The Neurological Pathways – Thinking Outside the Box
-Instinct and Intuition Development
-Connecting the Dots for Creativity
-Fresh Outlook and New Ideas Techniques
-Incubating for Creative Potential
-Practicing Creativity - Gardner’s Intelligences
-Dissecting the Chips for Criticality
-Activity Breakdown and Resultant Analysis
-“What Can Happen?” Breakdown
-Flow Chart Visualization
-Circle of Core, Secondary and Peripheral Knowledge
-Experience is Not Proportional to Time - Quickening Experience Growth
-Data Collection, Stem and Leaf Plot, Running Records – High Speed Techniques for Process Monitoring and Data Analysis
-Pareto Analysis – When to Use; Regrouping Techniques
-Cause and Effect Analysis – Classification Definition and Challenges
-Scatter Diagrams – Process Parameter Relationships
Plan – Why, What and How to Plan
Do – What and How to Implement, Follow-up, Record and Document;
Check – What, How, When and Where to Check; Result vs. Goal
Act – How to Standardise, Communicate, Train and Monitor
Brainstorming – What to Do and Not to Do; Who to Invite and How to Control
Module 7: Risk and Decision Making
-Options, Choices and Constraints
-Managing the Influence of Personal Experience
-Qualitative and Quantitative Decision Making
-Priorities, Risks and Decisions
Methodology
Course Leader
Barrak Adam (Dr)
Phd, Author-Trainer-Business & Technical Consultant, Trade Negotiator, Change Agent
Barrak is a highly qualified Senior Consultant and Lead trainer who has a clear and comprehensive understanding of what competencies are to be developed, quickly realizes the needs and preferences of the clients, and rolls out a progression of effective fun learning activities that cumulatively build the desired abilities to achieve the program objectives. His abundant knowledge and experience addresses every situation in our fast pace business world and everyone is guaranteed to grab some useful takeaways.
Barrak comes to you with more than 40 years of enriched, result-oriented experience in many positions among SMEs, government agencies, multinational and businesses. Equipped with solid experience and a wide range of state-of-art resources and latest development, his training programs are geared towards competency development.
With only the minimum amount of necessary theory (he says the participants can read his notes later) his training/ speaking sessions are filled with mindset, behavioural and capability change activities. There is always excitement, A-Hah moments in every session at his programs.
Barrak had worked with the Audio-Visual, Automotive, Printing, Property Development, Construction, Timber and Food industries, in capacities ranging from Group Engineer, Manager, Plant Manager, Senior Negotiator, Project Director and Managing Director.
Being a Management Consultant, Management System Auditor, Trainer and Counselor, he had consulted for an even wider range of industries that includes Medical services, Financial institutions, Petroleum industries, Metal, Plastics, Cellulose and Electronic components manufacturers, and the Civil service around the world.
He graduated in Engineering from the Singapore Polytechnic in 1973 and continued with post graduate and continuing studies in Engineering, Social Science, Rubber and Plastics Technology, Training and Development, Radiation Protection, and Quality Management, with a PhD in Organizational Management from Iowa State (US).
He has since been training and consulting for organizations such as PETRONAS, the National Electricity Board, the National Bank, various government ministries and agencies including Parliament House, and large corporations, further to training in Mauritania, Turkmenistan, Abu Dhabi, Sudan, Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia and Australia.
Currently, he is a senior resource faculty member for iTrainingExpert.com, continuously design and conduct customised trainings and consultancy for multi-national companies around the world.
To contact Barrak, please feel free to email us at info@itrainingexpert.com or call +603 8074 9056 or mobile +6012 6869 628
OR
Mr CF Leong
Fellow IMI, MBA, IE (CEI, UK), AAE
Honorary Member of City & Guilds of London Institute, UK
Master Trainer and HR Practitioner
Mr Leong has more than 38 years of experience in training and human resources development with a Malaysian Conglomerate company. He conducted the company’s renowned management trainees program for years in building talents for the business. During part of his tenure with the organization, he was directly under the managing director to execute a companywide leadership program in building a high performance organization from heavy machinery industry, motor car sales and services, car assembly plant to oil and gas industry with a total workforce of more than 5500 employees. He conducted many company diagnostics in these business environment and recommended solutions for improvements and change. He was seconded as a Human Resources and Training consultant to similar company in China for 7 years. He is an expert in setting up technical training centers for the organization to run vocational education and skill training programs both in Malaysia and in China.
Training programs conducted by Mr Leong are:
1. Culture an Organization for High Performance through Change management (2 days)
2. How to Become a Better Sales Negotiator for Business (2 days)
3. Leadership in Managing People (2 days)
4. How to develop a Business Strategy (2 days)
5. Developing a Marketing Strategy (2 days)
6. Building a Growing & Sustainable Organization (2 days)
7. Strategic Business Thinking for Leaders (1 day)
8. Building a Customer Care Organization (2 days)
9. Tips on Excellent Customer Service to drive repeated Sales (2 days)
10. How to Develop a Balanced Scorecard (BSC) for Organizational Performance Measurement (1 day)
11. Professional Selling and Marketing Skills (2 days)
12. Building a sustainable Marketing Enterprise (2 days)
To book Mr Leong for speaking and training engagement, feel free to contact us at info@itrainingexpert.com or telephone + 603 8082 3707 | +6012 6869 628.
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