Essentially human - thinking skills for work and life
What you'll learn
- Understand that how we frame our thinking influences relationships and leadership approaches.
- Use a coaching-style approach to support others to identify and achieve outcomes.
- Be self-aware and reflective, identifying individual and team learning goals.
- Harness different perspectives for effective collaboration.
- Be a compassionate leader and team member.
- Engage others to be curious and creative to identify and implement fresh ideas.
Requirements
- No prior experience required, just curiosity and a willingness to think and learn.
Description
Extend and flex your thinking, your cognitive muscles, to think better and quicker.
On this research-informed course, you will gain a better understanding of how your thinking influences everything you know and do. It focuses on essentially human skills – thinking skills for work and life - needed to thrive in an AI influenced world. By the end of the course you will be able to access your toolkit of thinking skills to become more self-aware, reflective, curious, creative, compassionate and collaborative, and action-focused, including ideas for visualising your thinking to support your learning and work with others.
You will use your thinking skills to make what you do, for example, getting focused, problem solving, communicating, decision making, being innovative, leading or being an effective team member, more effective, whatever your goals are.
The course weaves approaches from systems thinking, powerful knowledge, leadership and change management theory, to offer practical, everyday thinking habits and tools for you to implement.
There are over 3.5 hours of lectures, demonstrations and real-life practical examples, together with quizzes to support you to reflect on your thinking, questioning routines and suggested activities. You will learn how:
- your mental models - how you think - shape what you know and do
- simple thinking building blocks can be used effectively to understand even complex problems
- to visualise your thinking to think deeper, learn and work with others
- to set a thinking goal that is action- focused
- to increase your curiosity and creativity to support future-oriented thinking, innovation and change
- to use your thinking skills to be more self-aware and build better interpersonal skills
What you’ll learn
Understand that how we frame our thinking influences relationships and leadership approaches.
Use a coaching-style approach to support others to identify and achieve outcomes.
Be self-aware and reflective, identifying individual and team learning goals.
Harness different perspectives for effective collaboration.
Be a compassionate leader and team member.
Engage others to be curious and creative to identify and implement fresh ideas.
Are there any course requirements or prerequisites?
No prior experience required, just curiosity and a willingness to think and learn.
Who this course is for:
Company founders or leaders
People starting leadership roles or fulfilling leadership roles as part of promotion
Those aiming for leadership roles in the future
Who this course is for:
- Company founders or leaders
- People starting leadership roles or fulfilling leadership roles as part of promotion
- Those aiming for leadership roles in the future
Instructor
- 4.8 Instructor Rating
- 4 Reviews
- 7 Students
- 1 Course
I am co-founder of knowledge-weave™, which focuses on developing high-level thinking skills and meaningful action for individuals and organisations in our AI informed world. My approach builds on over twenty-years’ experience and expertise in research, coaching, teacher education, train-the-trainer, systems thinking, and leadership and management. I have designed and delivered programmes with organisations including the Institute for Leadership and Management and the University of Cambridge. I am UK-based but also have an international portfolio of work, supporting clients with the design, implementation and evaluation of new initiatives.
My work is research-informed, drawing on ideas from the systems thinking, appreciative-inquiry and powerful knowledge literature, including my own PhD research. I am passionate about supporting people’s thinking skills, developing new ways to support creativity and problem solving and effectively implementing change, especially with those new to middle or senior leadership roles.
My work has also included leading complex national, multimillion-pound evaluation, research and development projects, using a range of methodologies, including theory-of-change and participatory systems mapping approaches.