"Analysis in the Wild": Critical Thinking Workshop

Board members, Company CEOs, Managers of Non-Profit Organisations’ key decision makers within the NPO sector and Institutions of Higher Learning are cordially invited to attend our highly commended:

"Analysis-in-the Wild": Critical Thinking Workshop

Analysis lies at the heart of leadership, management and effectiveness. The ability to analyse yourself, your organisation and the context in which you operate is central to the work of decision makers, managers and strategists. However, little time is spent on developing this fundamental and core competency.

This workshop provides participants with innovative and practical techniques in order to improve their critical thinking and analytical skills. It pays particular attention to the direct sense-making of real world environments rather than theories of analysis. Participants will therefore learn how to make sense of the real world: hence Analysis-in-the Wild. Our learning methodology is based on action-learning, peer-to-peer learning, case studies and competency based methods. Delegates will therefore attain certain levels of mastery during the course.

Modules

• Neurological advances in understanding thinking, analysis and blind spots
• What sailing, supermarkets and robotics teach us about cognition: New insights into cognition and how to enhance our cognitive capabilities
• Overcoming bias in analysis: the psychology of thinking
• Conceptual, Factual and Normative Reasoning
• Avoiding surprise: Conceptual thinking and Concept Mapping
• New ways of noticing the future: Peripheral Perception Methods
• What Tracking, Art and Music Appreciation teaches us about science and analysis
• Learning, Emotional Intelligence and basic analytical methods
• Cybernetics and Complexity: new tools for analysis and making knowledge

Cost: R2750.00 + R385.00 (Vat) = R3135.00

Deadline for Registration: 04 February 2009

Please download the registration form from the website (www.inyathelo.co.za), complete and return by email to mandla@inyathelo.co.za or fax to 021 465 6953. For further information please contact Mandla Hermanus or James Senokwanyane at 021- 465 6981/2.