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Critical Thinking Skills for the Professional

Have you ever tried to find a solution to a problem only to realize you’ve been focusing on the wrong problem from the very beginning? Or you’ve proposed a solution only to have it shut down by your boss or coworkers? How stressful and defeating is that? With massive changes in our world that seem to create the most difficult of circumstances, both personally and professionally, your skills as a critical thinker and problem solver need to be further developed now more than ever.

By the end of this course you will have learned and memorized a practical model to solve problems on your own and with others. These 7 critical steps will ensure that you have looked at a problem from every angle and considered multiple solutions. In fact, this dynamic and holistic approach will help you solve problems once and for all!


Effective Problem-Solving and Decision-Making

Problem-solving and effective decision-making are essential skills in today’s fast-paced and ever-changing workplace. Both require a systematic yet creative approach to address today’s business concerns. This course will teach an overarching process of how to identify problems to generate potential solutions and how to apply decision-making styles in order to implement and assess those solutions. Through this process, you will gain confidence in assessing problems accurately, selecting the appropriate decision-making approaches for the situation at hand, making team decisions, and measuring the success of the solution’s implementation. Using case studies and situations encountered by class members, you will explore proven, successful problem-solving and decision-making models and methods that can be readily transferred to workplace projects.

Upon completing this course, you will be able to: 

1. Identify key terms, styles, and approaches to effective problem-solving and decision-making 

2. Explain both the affordances and limitations associated with problem-solving and decision-making 

3. Reflect on how mindset and personal bias influence your ability to solve problems and make decisions 

4. Explain and discuss how organizational decisions or non-decisions impact personal development, team dynamics, and company-wide performance 

5. Articulate how both good and bad team decisions can benefit your professional growth


Voice of the Customer (VoC): Enhancing Experiences

In today's rapidly evolving global and personalized marketplaces, delivering exceptional customer experiences is no longer a one-time transaction but a continuous process. To thrive in this dynamic landscape, organizations must harness the power of the Voice of the Customer (VoC) – a practice that involves actively listening to customers to understand their preferences, needs, and feedback. This course equips participants with the tools, methods, and strategies to not only collect valuable customer insights but also to cultivate a customer-centric culture within their organizations. By examining real-world case studies and examples from industry leaders like JetBlue, Zappos, and Amazon, participants will learn how VoC practices can drive improvements in customer satisfaction, decision-making, and product/service development.

Participants in this course will gain a comprehensive understanding of VoC principles and their role in enhancing customer engagement. They will learn essential skills, including customer-centric decision-making, effective communication, and data collection and analysis. By diversifying customer engagement channels and actively seeking customer feedback, organizations can better align their products, services, and brands with their customer segments, ultimately leading to increased loyalty and success in a highly competitive market. Moreover, this course emphasizes the importance of fostering a customer-centric culture, where collaboration, transparency, and openness are integral values, enabling organizations to connect deeply with their customers and drive continuous improvement. 

This course is tailored for team leaders, supervisors, and managers responsible for individuals and teams, as well as professionals in HR, Labor Relations, and Learning and Development functions. It assumes a basic knowledge of marketing, brands, and customer service and is suitable for staff and managers involved in product and service design, development, sales, and service.

Upon completing this course, participants will be able to analyze key concepts, benefits, and frameworks of the VoC practice. They will also identify and evaluate core customer feedback collection methods and data. Additionally, participants will gain the skills to apply VoC principles within their organizations to improve collaboration, decision-making, and continuous improvement.