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Online Problem Solving Through Productive Thinking Training

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Problem Solving Through Productive Thinking Series (7 hours)

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  • Learn online with these interactive online courses.
  • Affordable Pricing (Only $99.95 for the complete series)
  • A full year to complete the courses
  • Retake the courses as many times as you like
  • Measure your progress with assessment tests after each course
  • Earn completion certificates after passing each assessment test

1. Problem Solving Through Productive Thinking:1 The Concept of Productive Thinking

Time: 1 hours
This course provides information about concepts and ideas that support productive thinking. It also discusses how to recognize mechanisms that deter productive thinking.

Objectives

  • Describe how productive thinking differs from reproductive thinking
  • Identify the six steps for thinking productively
  • Identify three reasons for thinking better
  • Describe why thinking avoidance mechanisms occur
  • Identify three types of thinking avoidance mechanisms

Topics

  • Foundational concepts
  • Why think better?
  • Thinking is hard work


2. Problem Solving Through Productive Thinking:2 Productive Thinking in Principle

Time: 2 hours
This course provides information about reproductive and productive thinking. It discusses the differences between critical and creative thinking, which are thinking skills that assist in the productive thinking process. This course also describes habits that can help you get more out of your brainstorming sessions.

Objectives

  • Define reproductive and productive thinking
  • Identify the three levels of reproductive thinking
  • Describe the characteristics of creative and critical thinking
  • Describe the difficulties that people have with staying in the question in order to avoid simply settling for an answer
  • Describe the tools you need to make better use of your brainstorming sessions

Topics

  • Reproductive thinking
  • Productive thinking
  • Being open to the possible
  • Brainstorming in thirds


3. Problem Solving Through Productive Thinking:3 The Productive Thinking Model

Time: 3 hours
This course explores a problem-solving model of six steps: identifying problems, establishing Success Criteria, asking the right questions, generating answers, forging solutions, and aligning resources.

Objectives

  • Describe the six steps in the Productive Thinking Model and the various substeps contained in each step
  • Use various tools and exercises, such as I3, DRIVE, C5, AIM, POWER, and KnoWonder to navigate through the Productive Thinking Model

Topics

  • An overview of the Productive Thinking Model
  • What's going on?
  • What's success?
  • What's the question?
  • Generate answers
  • Forge the solution
  • Align resources


4. Problem Solving Through Productive Thinking:4 Productive Thinking in Practice

Time: 1 hours
This course provides information about how to think productively. It also recommends ideal situations for applying productive thinking and outlines how to put productive thinking skills into practice.

Objectives

  • Explain the six steps of the Productive Thinking Model
  • Identify the most appropriate conditions for using the Productive Thinking Model
  • Describe techniques to incorporate productive thinking into everyday behavior

Topics

  • Reviewing the Productive Thinking Model
  • When is the Model appropriate?
  • Using the Model



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