CRITICAL THINKING: MANAGING UNCERTAINTY AND ANTICIPATING THE UNEXPECTED
with Dr. Kathy Pearson
October 10, 2019, 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
$475 (US) per person
The Delta Hotel by Marriott
515 Route 1 South, Iselin, NJ 08830
(732) 634-3600

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CRITICAL THINKING: MANAGING UNCERTAINTY AND ANTICIPATING THE UNEXPECTED

 
The higher you are in the organization, the more complex problems become. This fast-paced class focuses on developing advanced skills in critical thinking and breakthrough problem-solving. Discover how to increase the quality of your decisions, and those of your team, with particular emphasis on the importance of critical thinking skills to mitigate the effect of our own cognitive biases, as well as an emphasis on making decisions with little or ambiguous information and deep uncertainty. This seminar will help you leverage your team`s immense untapped wisdom to get better results. If you are responsible for improving productivity, strategy, quality, or safety you can't afford to miss this class!
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DR. KATHY PEARSON

 

Dr. Kathy Pearson is a strategist, systems thinking expert, and authority in decision making. She is also an award-winning educator who works extensively with mid-to senior-level executives, including high potentials and executive teams. Kathy works closely with Executive Education groups including the Wharton School, Duke CE, Smith College, and the Institute for Management Studies, as well as directly with global organizations. Kathy teaches on a variety of topics including Critical Thinking, Strategic Agility, Change Management and Strategic Execution.

Dr. Pearson works with executives spans a wide variety of industries and geographies, including health care and life sciences, financial and professional services, technology, consumer products, energy, aerospace and defense, and manufacturing. Her client list includes organizations as diverse as Bank of America, Cardinal Health, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Coca-Cola, Comcast, Council for Advancement and Support of Education, Federal Reserve Bank, Ferring Pharmaceuticals, GlaxoSmithKline, Heineken, Juniper, Lincoln Financial Group, Lundbeck, Microsoft, Merck, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Schneider Electric, Temasek Management Academy, University of Pennsylvania Health System (Penn Medicine), and the World Bank.

She is the co-author of The Perceptive Leader: A Handbook for Leading in an Environment of Uncertainty. She received her B.S. degree in theoretical mathematics from Auburn University, her M.S. degree in Decision Sciences from Georgia State University, and her Ph.D. in industrial engineering from Northwestern University.


WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

 
  • The differences between best practices in short-term versus long-term decision making
  • Critical thinking skills to mitigate the effect of our own cognitive biases
  • To develop your decision making with little or ambiguous information and uncertainty


TOPICS COVERED

 

Short-Term versus Long-Term Framework

  • Today's Challenges
  • Decision Making Foundation

Gaining Clarity of the Issue

  • Commander's Intent
  • Experiential Frames - Individual and Organizational

Generating Alternative Solutions

  • Case Study

Gathering Information

  • Cognitive Biases in Data Gathering and Analysis

Making the Final Choice

  • Decision Choice with Teams
  • Decision Rights
  • Strategic Agility

GUIDE TO PARTICIPANT SELECTION

 
Senior Leaders
APPLICABLE IF IT MATCHES A DEVELOPMENT NEED
Mid-Level-Leaders
PRIMARY TARGET AUDIENCE
Emerging Leaders and Functional Experts
PRIMARY TARGET AUDIENCE


Program Level: Beginner/Intermediate
Delivery Method: Group Internet Based (Zoom platform)
Prerequisites: None
Advanced Preparation: None
Participants will earn 3 CPE credits or 3 PDC credits
Field of Study: Personal Development
 
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