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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.
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
o Interactive lecture
o Group presentations Octalysis GamificationTM
o Management games o Simulations
Course structure
Learning Outcome: : Students 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: Students 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: Students 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: : Students 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: Students will be able to generate new ideas from old ones and combine them into applicable
solutions.
Tools: SCAMPER
Learning Outcome: e: Students 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