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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.
Learning Objective
Learning Methodology
Learning Objective
After attending this workshop, learners will be able to do the following:
• Identify the different thinking styles and their uses
• Apply analytical thinking to strategizing, planning and detailing
• Apply critical thinking to complex issues to differentiate and rate
• Apply creative thinking to generate new ideas
• Apply lateral thinking to connect and explore unknown information
• Shift between different thinking and emotional profiles to cater to the correct situation
• Identify the different thinking styles and their uses
• Apply analytical thinking to strategizing, planning and detailing
• Apply critical thinking to complex issues to differentiate and rate
• Apply creative thinking to generate new ideas
• Apply lateral thinking to connect and explore unknown information
• Shift between different thinking and emotional profiles to cater to the correct situation
Learning Methodology
Take Charge Learning Facilitator System®
– Interactive lecture Octalysis GamificationTM
– Management games o Simulations
– Interactive lecture Octalysis GamificationTM
– Management games o Simulations
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
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
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
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
Tools: Visualisation, Brainstorming
Learning Outcome: Participants will be able to generate new ideas from old ones and combine them into applicable solutions.
Tools: SCAMPER
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
Tools: Thinking Styles