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The Complete Business Thinker

A set of courses to master the individual and collaborative skills needed for success in the modern business world

Structured thinking

  • Blend creative and logical thinking to brilliant effect
  • Be confident in finding the right questions you should be working on
  • Accelerate the thinking on projects to get to the best answer faster
  • Manage collaborative thinking through visual and interactive processes
  • Master the tools and techniques for creative inspiration and logical reasoning
  • Ensure your thinking takes account of emotions and personality types
  • Avoid the common thinking errors and wasted effort
  • Maximise your influence through turning your thinking into great communication

Strategy planning

  • Set direction and how to get there
  • Become adept at spotting and interpreting current and future trends
  • Use system mapping, SWOT and force field analysis to understand your environment
  • Think creatively about your future success with scenario planning and options modelling
  • Practice powerful market analysis and customer segmentation techniques
  • Learn the best practices turning a strategy into winning programmes and projects

Facilitation skills

  • Design and run great meetings
  • Develop skills for designing and running your own meetings
  • Manage group dynamics and diverse personalities
  • Know how to handle difficult questions or awkward participants
  • Gain confidence in speaking within a group and delivering your own inputs
  • Have ideas to help colleagues with their meetings, as facilitator or participant
  • Save money by minimising spend on consultants and improving team productivity
  • Reduce the stress of overloaded diaries full of poorly designed meetings

Personal influence

  • Get others to hear your ideas
  • Refine your personal USP and brand
  • Improve your confidence and capability to communicate in public (including TV and radio)
  • Be proactive in preparing for talking about big issues to staff and external parties
  • Become proficient in communicating ‘good’ and ‘bad’ news effectively
  • Respond well to difficult questioning
  • Increase the impact of your work
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idenk development programmes are run as either one-day or two-day events
For more details call 01223 503609 or email courses@idenk.com

 
 

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