Creative Problem Solving Techniques – A Blueprint for Success (OnDemand Webinar)

$99.00

SKU: 410313EAU

Description

Learn how to explore and apply creative problem solving techniques that we all can use.Recently, the goal of improving the effectiveness of organizations has become more complex and challenging. Rapidly accelerating change and frequent major discontinuities and interruptions now dominate the world where we live and work. Many that prospered during more stable timestimes that rewarded routinized efficiencynow find themselves poorly adapted to today’s new economic and social realities. Efficiency implies mastering routine, but adaptability means mastering the process of deliberately changing routine. Adaptability is disruptive. It allows an organization or an individual to change and create deliberately and continually. It entails deliberate discontentlooking for new opportunities, problems, trends, technologies, ideas, and methods that may dramatically improve or completely change routines or introduce new processes. You will learn that adaptability can be conceptualized as creative problemsolving. With mastery of problem solving also comes selfesteem in work and home applications. This program will teach you solid critical thinking skills, how to understand creativity as a process with stages that serve as a model for adaptability, and how to create a safe environment to promote creativity and innovation that are necessary to stay alive in today’s business world.

Date: 2023-01-06 Start Time: End Time:

Learning Objectives

Define Creative Problem Solving and Why It Matters

Learn to Overcome Common Misconceptions

Examine How to Manage Time Constraints

Identify Office Politics and How to Avoid Them

Understand How Problem-Solving Language Influences Others

Discover the Power of Humor

Explore Practical Applications of Creative Ideas at Work and Home

ASA ,HR Certification Institute ,SHRM ,Additional credit may be available upon request. Contact Lorman at 866-352-9540 for further information.

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Creative Problem Solving Techniques – A Blueprint for Success (OnDemand Webinar)

$99.00

SKU: 406601EAU

Description

Learn how to explore and apply creative problem solving techniques that we all can use.
Watching tv, you see and hear different information being beamed to your brain. Is it true? How do you know that? Do you believe it? Do you have a choice? This topic is designed to make us better consumers of information helping us direct information into useful bits of data we can use to solve problems. Once you start asking questions and adapt this into your life, you won’t be just another zombie allowing everything to enter your mind unexamined, unquestioned and unfiltered. You’ll be a changed person. In this material, you will be guided in dissecting a couple of case studies while on the way applying concepts and explore our own way we can solve problems.

Date: 2019-11-05 Start Time: End Time:

Learning Objectives

Be Skeptical, Ask Questions, Be Willing to Wonder
• Be Curious
• Not Believing and Accepting Everything You See for the First Time
• Ask Why?
• What Is the Other Side of This Story?
• What Is Being Left out?
• How Do We Ask Questions

Define the Problem, and Examine the Definition of Terms
• Identify the Issues in Concrete Terms
• What Is the True Topic
• What Words Are Being Used to Describe the Problem

Examine the Evidence
• What Are Your Biases, How Do You Really Want the Evidence to Turn out
• Hearsay or Wishes Can’t Be Used as Evidence

Cautions in Drawing Conclusions From Evidence
• Conclusions Can Differ
• True Experiment (Cause and Effect) or Correlational (+,-)
• For a Cause and Effect Relationship to Be True, the Cause Has to Produce the Effect 100% of the Time

Consideration of Alternative Explanations for Evidence
• What Are Other Influencing Factors
• What Else Might Have Been the Cause of This? (Reference Defining the Problem)
• What Is Not Being Shown, Represented, Repressed?

What About Your Biases and Assumptions
• What Do I Want to Hear?
• Do I Automatically Discount If It Doesn’t Agree With What I’ve Learned Before?
• Considering Evidence That May Contradict Your Beliefs

Emotional Reasoning vs. Rationality
• Feelings
• Emotions

Over Simplication or Over Generalization
• Looking Beyond the Obvious
• What Else Can Be True About This?
• What Else Is Being Hidden or Left out or Covered Over

Tolerate Uncertainty
• Settle on Guiding Beliefs (?)
• Be Willing to Change in the Face of Changing Evidence
• If the Current Beliefs Still Work Keep Them, If Not Upgrade Them to Something Better

Mel Coe, Ph.D.-Mel Coe and Partners