July 2024
Beginner
1h 44m
English
Closed Captioning available in English
Overview
90+ Minutes of Video Instruction
Learn to boost innovation, collaboration, and problem-solving skills for successful creative and critical thinking.
Overview
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
Career Success Series
The Career Success Series from Pearson addresses essential skills for your personal and professional development in the areas of communication, presentation, critical thinking, teamwork, leadership, problem solving, and resilience. These skills are critical for any industry, any job title, and any career stage – whether you’re just starting out or have been in the workforce for years. Expert trainers deliver practical tools and techniques you can use to enhance your resume, excel in your career, or simply enrich your life skills.
About the Instructor
Emma Sue Prince, BA, PGCE, MBA, 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.
These 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.
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Learn How To
- Understand your creative brain and where ideas come from
- Develop divergent thinking
- Facilitate group creativity
- Understand your brain’s biases and where they come from
- Apply practical strategies for breaking down the barriers to creative and critical thinking
About Pearson Video Training
Pearson publishes expert-led video tutorials covering a wide selection of technology topics designed to teach you the skills you need to succeed. These professional and personal technology videos feature world-leading author instructors published by your trusted technology brands: Addison-Wesley, Cisco Press, Pearson IT Certification, Prentice Hall, Sams, and Que Topics include: IT Certification, Network Security, Cisco Technology, Programming, Web Development, Mobile Development, and more. Learn more about Pearson Video training at http://www.informit.com/video.
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