Course Code: PERDEV 1553
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Critical Thinking and Creative Problem Solving
Course Sector:
Interpersonal Skills and Self Development
Course Dates and Locations
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01
07 - 09 Jul 2025
3 Days
Abu Dhabi, UAE
$3,250
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10 - 12 Nov 2025
3 Days
Dubai, UAE
$3,250
Introduction
Training course introducion / brief

Today’s work environment is increasingly evolving and becoming more complex. Meanwhile, the managers and stakeholders are demanding we come up with more creative and innovation solutions to the problems we face.

 How can you find solutions and make decisions when faced with uncertainty? 

How do you respond to the demand for more innovative approaches in your process? 

This training course is designed to provide participants with the relevant concepts, creative processes and tools that strike the right balance between critical thinking and creative solutions. This course will allow participants to discover how their thinking preferences can enhance or hinder them or their team engage in the creative problem-solving process. 

Training Methodology

The training course is designed to be interactive and participatory, and includes various learning tools to enable the participants to operate effectively and efficiently in a multifunctional environment. 

The course will use lectures and presentations, exercises, experiential and exposure to real world problems and policy choices confronting delegates.

Course Objectives
At the end of the training course, participants will be able to

  •   Develop more creative solutions for problems through critical thinking and creative problem solving
  •   Learn the distinct phases of the creative problem-solving process
  •   Identify strategies for gaining acceptance of ideas
  •   Know when to use critical versus creative thinking.
  •   Enhance personal creativity
  •   Select the best decision given the specific situation
  •   Apply processes to assess work issues and problems
  •   Transform your creativity into practical business solutions.

 

Course Audience
Who is this course for, and can benefit the most
  • Mid-level Managers and Supervisors who are responsible for solving complex problems and making strategic decisions.
  • Team Leaders who need to foster creativity and innovation within their teams.
  • Project Managers who encounter uncertainty and require innovative approaches to meet project goals.
  • Business Analysts who need to balance critical thinking with creative problem-solving to provide effective solutions.
  • Human Resource Professionals involved in organizational development and who facilitate problem-solving and decision-making processes.
  •  Any Professional who faces complex challenges in their work and seeks to enhance their problem-solving and decision-making skills.
Course Outline
The course aims and learning outcomes

 Critical Thinking and Creative Problem-Solving Essentials 

      Profiling your personal thinking style and the styles of others

      Stimulating creativity through reflection exercises

      Analyzing left- and right-brain characteristics

      Assessing a situation to determine if it is a problem or a decision

      Applying logical methodologies to solve everyday problems 

               Leveraging Personal Thinking Styles: Analysing personal preferences 

      Dominance drives behavior

      Identifying your own natural brain dominance

      Triune Brain Theory 

          Assessing Your Preferred Approach To Thinking 

  •    Enhancing whole-brain thinking
  •    Leveraging left- and right-brain dominance
  •    Recognizing strengths and opportunities

Identifying thinking preferences 

      Recognizing others' preferred thinking styles

      Adapting to others' thinking styles

      Flexing to opposing styles 

Unleashing Your Creativity: The Creative Environment 

      Exploring your own creativity

      Utilizing tools and techniques to become more creative

      Identifying elements that stimulate creativity

      Eliminating barriers to innovation

Identifying thinking preferences 

      Recognizing others' preferred thinking styles

      Adapting to others' thinking styles

      Flexing to opposing styles 

Unleashing Your Creativity: The Creative Environment 

      Exploring your own creativity

      Utilizing tools and techniques to become more creative

      Identifying elements that stimulate creativity

      Eliminating barriers to innovation

 

 

Identifying thinking preferences

      Recognizing others' preferred thinking styles

      Adapting to others' thinking styles

      Flexing to opposing styles 

Unleashing Your Creativity: The Creative Environment 

      Exploring your own creativity

      Utilizing tools and techniques to become more creative

      Identifying elements that stimulate creativity

      Eliminating barriers to innovation

 

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Boost certificate of completion
BOOST's Professional Attendance Certificate “BPAC” is always given to the delegates after completing the training course, and depends on their attendance of the program at a rate of no less than 80%, besides their active participation and engagement during the program sessions.
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COURSE METHODOLOGY

Our Training programs are implemented by combining the participants' academic knowledge and practical practice (30% theoretical / 70% practical activities).

At The end of the training program, Participants are involved in practical workshop to show their skills in applying what they were trained for. A detailed report is submitted to each participant and the training department in the organization on the results of the participant's performance and the return on training. Our programs focus on exercises, case studies, and individual and group presentations.

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