Business programs

Business Programs

Critical Thinking

Critical thinking involves looking beyond the surface of information by analysing, evaluating and judging information, perspectives and strategies.

Mind Muse business programs include techniques to identify logical and fallacious reasoning, create and communicate sound arguments, analyse information and evaluate competing perspectives and strategies.

Workplace Applications: research and analysis, policy formulation, inquiries and reports.

Creative Thinking

Creative thinking involves generating ideas and thinking beyond the surface of problems to locate original and innovative solutions.

Mind Muse business programs include understanding the value and scope of creative thinking for workplace activities, processes for generating ideas, innovation strategies and creative teamwork.

Workplace Applications: product innovation, formulating and adopting new systems, team collaboration and marketing.

Problem Solving

Problem solving encompasses critical thinking, creative thinking and decision making skills. It starts with defining and analysing a problem, generating ideas, evaluating pros, cons and consequences, option selection and implementation planning.

Mind Muse business programs include practical techniques and analytical tools (such as heuristics) to progress through the problem solving process to formulate a creative and viable solution.

Workplace Applications: team work, strategy formulation and implementation, reports and marketing.

Clear & Compelling Communication

There are many techniques that can persuade audiences to accept a point a view. These include emotional tactics, the use of language and the use of reason.

Mind Muse business programs focus on the use of language and reason to provide a compelling case. This program considers language devices, sound and fallacious reasoning forms, types of evidence to justify a perspective and report and presentation structures.

Workplace Applications: reports, presentations, emails, and pitches.

The essential distinction of Mind Muse programs are their problem based learning methodology. They don’t lecture you with redundant information you don’t need. They allow you to discover the practical knowledge that will assist workplace requirements through provision of concepts, processes, tools and case studies.

An engaging, useful and refreshing experience.

Metacognition

Metacognition is awareness of and reflection upon, what one thinks and how one thinks. This is no mere navel gazing as a concerted effort is required to become aware of, address and overcome blind spots, bias and belief foundations.

Mind Muse business programs explore the nature and importance of metacognition, understanding how we can be mislead by our assumptions, learning to “see” things we don’t automatically see and overcoming bias.

Workplace Applications: team building, conflict resolution, dividing work tasks, defining meeting outcomes and personal strategies for organising and completing work tasks

Advanced Visual Thinking & Communication

Visual thinking and communication is a means of understanding and conveying information clearly and logically. It is also a means to record progress, clarify information, create new ideas, assist memory and provide a structure for presentations and reports.

Mind Muse business programs include introduction and practice of a variety of visual formats to organise, communicate and record efficiently and effectively.

Workplace Applications: reports, organisation and planning, meetings, team work.

There may be times when individuals or teams need a bit of assistance to make decisions, analyse information, formulate reports, pitches or presentations.

Mind Muse provides customised coaching or facilitation for individuals and organisations with confidentiality assured. Our specialised programs include the following skills development units:

Decision Making

Good decision making evaluates information, identifies assumptions, analyses options, considers consequences, selects a course of action, records and communicates the rationale for the decision and tracks and measures the outcomes.

Mind Muse business programs provides a process for clear and transparent decision making for individual and team work, tools to analyse information and perspectives, techniques to identify assumptions and blind spots, planning methods for change and evaluation of outcomes.

Workplace Applications: team leadership, executive meetings, strategy formulation and reports.