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7 Keys for Developing Effective Creative and Critical Thinking

Published by Pearson (July 13, 2024)

ISBN-13: 9780135342503

  • Course

$99.99

Product details

1.7 hours of video; Quizzes; Credly badging; 365-day course access

Includes

  • Creative thinking best practices
  • Practical critical thinking strategies
  • Group creativity tactics

Language: English

Product Information

Being a creative thinker is about nurturing curiosity and fluidity, being able to generate lots of different ideas and being willing to try out different approaches to solving problems. Being a critical thinker is more than just your ability to analyze, debate, and evaluate. Critical, creative, and collaborative thinking are essential skills for success. Being a truly critical thinker includes being able to move fast, adapt well to change, and break down some of our natural barriers to thinking critically.

In this course, Emma Sue Prince, author of 7 Skills for the Future and an expert in creative and critical thinking, coaches you through simple and time-tested techniques for improving and perfecting your grasp of:

  • Creativity and brain science
  • Generating great ideas
  • Developing divergent thinking
  • Embracing ambiguity and change
  • Understanding the brain's natural biases
  • Breaking down the main barriers to thinking critically and creatively
  • Building a creativity dream team

Course Introduction

Lesson 1: Creativity and the Brain

Lesson 2: Generating Great Ideas

Lesson 3: Developing Divergent Thinking

Lesson 4: Embracing Ambiguity and Change

Lesson 5: Understanding Natural Biases

Lesson 6: Breaking Down Barriers to Creative and Critical Thinking

Lesson 7: Building a Creativity Dream Team

Emma Sue Prince is author of 7 Skills for the Future, published by Pearson Business and translated into 10 languages. A specialist in experiential learning, Emma Sue advocates the power of developing and nurturing the skills she writes about to transform lives.

The skills are adaptability, critical thinking, empathy, integrity, optimism, being proactive, and resilience.

Emma Sue delivers powerful workshops across a range of industries from law firms to hospitals to universities and software engineering companies, as well as to "closed" groups globally. She has connected with people across the world delivering her sessions to Muslim communities in Bangladesh and North Africa, as well as to diverse groups in the UK.

Follow Emma Sue on Instagram: https://instagram.com/7skillsforthefuture?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

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