Analysis in the Wild: Critical Thinking Workshop

Registration Deadline: 4 February 2009

Inyathelo – the South African Institute for Advancement (SAIA) is conducting a three-day workshop entitled “Analysis in the Wild: Critical Thinking Workshop” from 11-13 February 2009 in Johannesburg.

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.

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

Dates: 11-13 February 2009
Cost: R3135.00 (VAT inclusive)

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