Problem Solving Training

Problem-solving skills are the abilities to analyse challenges, identify potential solutions, and implement effective strategies to overcome obstacles.

These skills are highly valued in various aspects of life, including personal, academic, and professional settings.

So how can I help?

I offer problem-solving training to help harness your initiative and critical thinking skills to approach problems solo or with groups – and you’ll discover how to use AI as a creative thinking partner.

Training can be delivered live and in-person or virtually over hours, days, or months: we’ll find something to fit your situation.

You’ll find basic prices and other add-ons, including ways to embed the learning, here.

frankie MADE me DO IT.

The problem-outcome frame structure will help me identify when I am personally in problem mode and how to gently shift others into outcome mode. The Disney process part of the Appreciative Inquiry workshop helped to imagine the art of the impossible and there were great practical tools that can be easily applied. Love the fact that you allow people the freedom and space to offer up all ideas.

Claire Amodei, Systems Thinking Analyst
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Problem-Solving Training Can Include (but isn’t limited to):

1. Creative Thinking Foundations

  • Human‑led: Define angles for creative thinking (vision, root issues, roles, strategy).
  • AI Partner Option: Use AI brainstorming prompts to surface diverse perspectives or stress‑test strategies.

2. Generating and Expanding Ideas

  • Human‑led: Improvisation, visual techniques, word play, avoiding groupthink.
  • AI Partner Option: AI tools anonymise contributions, cluster themes, and remix ideas into new hybrids.

3. Language, Listening, and Non‑Verbals

  • Human‑led: Listening and matching, recognising language/non‑verbals that block creativity, Writer’s Room techniques.

4. Organisational and Group Dynamics

  • Human‑led: Appreciative Inquiry, balancing extroverts and introverts, solo ideation.
  • AI Partner Option: Using AI prompts to ideate

5. Embodied Creative Processes

  • Human‑led: Painting, craft, filmmaking, storyboarding, storytelling, theatre improvisation, poetry, acting.
  • AI Partner Option: AI generates visual drafts, scripts, or improv scenarios to spark and capture creativity.

6. Applying and Filtering Ideas

  • Human‑led: Memory Wall, NUF Test, synchronous/asynchronous filtering, mitigation planning.
  • AI Partner Option: AI clustering engines prioritise ideas, simulate challenges, and propose mitigation strategies.

7. Action Planning and Evaluation

  • Human-led: Delegation maps, benchmarks, forecasting “What ifs.”
  • AI Partner Option: AI dashboards track progress; simulators forecast outcomes under different scenarios.

8. Selling Ideas

  • Traditional: 5‑minute pitch structure to Senior Leadership Team.

Design Principle

  • AI as sparring partner: Participants can opt to use AI tools to accelerate, expand, or stress‑test their work.
  • Dual benefit: Learners gain confidence in human‑driven problem‑solving while also building fluency in AI‑assisted methods.

 

It’s time shake out those tricky troubles and get to grips with problem-solving techniques.

 

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Know how to use communication to come up with better ideas and put them into practice, even if you’re working with others on the other side of the globe. With or without AI tools

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