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HATS

Heuristic & Adaptive Thinking Skills

Heuristic & Adaptive Thinking Skills (HATS) is a thinking development workshop that identifies the analytical, lateral, creative & critical thinking styles and how to apply them to different situations in work and life.

Emair Aziz Othman
Professional Development
Representative

Course structure

Learning Outcome: Participants will be able to demonstrate understanding of how the human brain processes information, how emotions play a role in helping and hindering these processes and how to be efficient in their thinking.
Tools: Thinking Styles, Thinking Traps
Learning Outcome: Participants will be able to investigate, identify and categorise information into useable content and solve problems by understanding the cause and effect and relationships between information.
Tools: Define-Describe-Deconstruct-Develop, 5 Whys
Learning Outcome: Participants will be able to determine and prove the correctness of information by asking validating questions and discovering whether one concept relates to another.
Tools: Thinking Traps
Learning Outcome: Participants will be able to explore and curate ideas based on disconnected information to innovate and overcome a problem with no obvious solution.
Tools: Visualisation, Brainstorming
Learning Outcome: Participants will be able to generate new ideas from old ones and combine them into applicable solutions.
Tools: SCAMPER
Learning Outcome: Participants will be able switch between various thinking profiles according to the situation that requires it to analyse, look for improvements, create or innovate.
Tools: Thinking Styles