Decisions
Making Strategic Decisions
Good decisions depend on understanding the bigger picture, anticipating consequences, and balancing competing priorities. Yet our natural thinking preferences lead us to emphasize some considerations and overlook others. You'll learn to evaluate evidence, explore possibilities, consider how a decision affects people, and assess practical constraints before choosing. You'll also identify trade-offs, challenge assumptions, and develop a clearer path forward. You'll leave with a repeatable method for making more thoughtful, informed decisions.
- Recognize which considerations your thinking preferences lead you to emphasize or overlook
- Weigh evidence, practical constraints, possibilities, and the effect on people before choosing
- Identify trade-offs and challenge assumptions
- Apply a repeatable method for more thoughtful, informed decisions
- See the bigger picture and anticipate the consequences of a decision
Developing Innovative Thinking
Our brains are skilled at finding predictable solutions, but innovation starts with looking at a problem from different angles. You'll learn how your own cognitive modes support each phase of problem-solving, and how to apply a structured framework to increase innovation in complex corporate and technical settings.
- Recognize how your cognitive modes support each phase of problem-solving
- Notice when you are settling for a predictable solution
- Look at a problem from different angles before choosing a direction
- Apply a structured framework for innovation in complex corporate and technical settings
- Use cognitive awareness to solve problems in new ways