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Analytical Thinking, Problem Solving & Decision Making (Live Online)

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Overview

Analytical Thinking, Problem Solving and Decision Making

Today, it's everyone’s job to effectively solve problems. Analytical thinking and problem solving are foundational thinking skills that involve breaking things down into their component parts. They also involve deductive reasoning, drawing conclusions from givens and applying judgments to reach conclusions from a combination of evidence and assumptions.

This seminar introduces you to fundamental thinking processes so that you can successfully analyze and solve a wide variety of business problems. Get these essential analytical thinking and problem-solving skills now to give yourself a powerful competitive and career advantage!

Who Should Attend

Any individual who wants to be better equipped to face and solve today’s complex business problems by using a foundational process for reasoning and problem solving.

What You Will Cover

  • Assessing patterns, recognizing probabilities and increasing your ability to think hypothetically
  • Ensuring the likelihood that your conclusion is the right one
  • Distinguishing between problem solving and decision making
  • Understanding how uncertainty and risk impact the way you make decisions
  • Reducing conflict and groupthink
  • Applying tools and techniques for sharpening analytical and intuitive aspects of decision making
  • Applying personal experience to complex decision making under conditions of uncertainty

How You Will Benefit

  • Develop more clarity around possible solutions
  • Avoid emotional triggers that can impede your best thinking
  • Generate and test solutions to atypical problems
  • Interpret probability to increase confidence in your decision
  • Negotiate among variables and conditions
  • Recognize the difference between rationality of purpose and rationality of process

Taught by

American Management Association

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