Business strategy. Plan and secure success.

This critical and creative thinking course will allow you to apply critical thinking skills to the workplace so you can clarify concepts and evaluate knowledge, especially the sources of truth. The development of your creative thinking skills will stimulate you to generate ideas, explore new possibilities and solve problems in novel ways, both individually and with others.

The focus in today’s workplace is on innovative solutions. Exercising critical and creative thinking skills is vital for creating competitive offers and being first to offer new advantages for your organisation through innovative services and products. The key is to continue to develop your critical and creative thinking skills so that they manifest spontaneously when needed.

Aims

The aim of this course is to build your skills in critical and creative problem solving in both workplace and everyday situations. The development of your critical and creative thinking will enable you to deliver stronger outcomes to the workplace and in leading others.

Outcomes

By the end of this course, you should be able to:

• describe the concept of critical thinking and why it is so important for establishing facts before making workplace decisions
• demonstrate skills in creative thinking by identifying and refining a ‘problem’ and approaching problem-solving from different angles with a fresh perspective
• build stronger arguments with evidence-based decision making by discerning fact from fiction, and