Who is this training for?
For leaders, managers and employees, who are members of teams and want to improve their competence in the area of problem solving.
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What you will learn in the virtual workshop:
- you will understand the basics of effective problem solving process,
- you will learn practical frameworks and methodologies to break down complex issues into manageable components,
- you will learn how to make well-informed and timely decisions in complex and uncertain environments, balancing multiple factors and stakeholders’ interests,
- you will gain the ability to analyze complex problems systematically, identify root causes, and evaluate potential solutions.
Advantages of the virtual training
- guarantee of interactive participation in training with the use of online engaging tools
- half-day workshops allow flexible organization of the workday
- relationships building with remote colleagues through joint participation in training
- participation in the workshop from anywhere, all you need is access to a computer
Virtual workshop program
Module 1
Foundations of problem solving
- What is a problem
- Root cause analysis, systems thinking and problem decomposition – ways to define the problem
- How not to be biased – critical thinking skills
- Analysing the data – what are our inputs and how to use them
- Generating ideas – can we be more creative? Most popular tools to gather ideas
- Main challenges while generating ideas and how to overcome them
Module 2
Mastering problem solving skills
- Decision making proces – how to select the best solution
- System thinking – consequences of the decision making proces
- How to communicate our decisions
- Team work – why problem solving proces can sometimes break the teams and how to avoid it
- Is this all? Continious Improvement as a skill of the future related to problem solving
- Case study and next steps
Project flow
Diagnosis and prework
- in-take interview with the project sponsor
- diagnosis of participants’ needs (online questionnaire and calls)
- prework for participants (material to watch, read or listen to)
Virtual workshops
- training divided into 2 workshops, 3,5 hours each
- interactive working methods: discussions, chat, virtual board, questionnaires, videos, case studies, breakout rooms, external tools (Mentimeter, Miro, Funretro)
- participants: up to 12 people
Summary and follow up
- training materials for participants
- access to the ETTA knowledge base
- follow up call with the project sponsor