Critical Thinking & Problem Solving Skills

This course aims to improve the delegates' comprehension of the crucial role that entrepreneurs play in managing critical situations within their business ventures. It focuses on developing creative and critical thinking skills to effectively conceptualise, analyse, synthesise, and evaluate market-driven scenarios. Entrepreneurs with strong creative critical thinking and problem-solving skills can visualise, articulate, and solve complex problems, enabling them to make sensible decisions based on the entrepreneurial market situation. The course explores a methodical approach to breaking down complex problems into appropriate solutions, which is to visualise, synthesise, analyse, and conceptualise critical situations in the dynamic entrepreneurial market.

Entrepreneurship & Creative/Critical Thinking & Problem Solving Techniques

Who should attend?

This course is designed for entrepreneurs, business venture CEOs, CFOs, directors, investors, board members, regulatory agencies, and business partners interested in understanding the role of creative critical thinking and problem-solving techniques in making strategic decisions within highly interactive financial market-driven environments.

Course Outcomes:

Upon completion of the course, delegates will gain knowledge and skills to:

• Develop creative critical thinking and problem-solving techniques in entrepreneurship.
• Implement and design a process for analysing, evaluating, reasoning, and reflecting.
• Plan activities to embed the problem-solving process within teams.
• Evaluate the outcomes of cognitive reflection and drive transformational entrepreneurial learning.
• Foster a perception of creative critical thinking and problem-solving skills among entrepreneurs from different business sectors.
• Identify factors contributing to deficiencies in generic skills, particularly in creative critical thinking and problem-solving skills, among entrepreneurs.
• Improve the cognitive processes of creative critical thinking and problem-solving through case studies.
• Establish mechanisms for analysing and evaluating creative thinking and problem-solving skills among entrepreneurs.
• Apply a creative quantitative and qualitative approach to analyse and bridge gaps in creative critical thinking and problem-solving skills among entrepreneurs.

Key Course Highlights:

• Understanding creative critical thinking and problem-solving methods
• Group tasks and case studies to identify deficiencies in critical thinking and problem-solving within given situations.
• Knowledge learning curve for understanding creative critical thinking and problem-solving.
• Creation of a creative critical thinking and problem-solving framework.
• Identifying risks in entrepreneurial business ventures using creative critical thinking and problem-solving techniques
• Analysing financial and capital market opportunities through creative critical thinking and problem-solving models
• Developing a business venture plan using creative critical thinking and problem-solving methods
• Negotiation and partner relationship management
• Dispute resolution.
• Ethics and green entrepreneurship
• Entrepreneurial idea generation and product design process through creative critical thinking and problem-solving techniques.
• Role and benefits of creative critical thinking and problem-solving techniques.