TRAINING
METHODOLOGY:
ü Motivation to get participants to accept, adapt &
apply skills (a softener approach)
ü Personality integration for participants to team up
effectively, tapping on each other strength to up-perform productively
ü The Science of Paradigms to enable participants to
understand & appreciate how the mind works to empower paradigm shifts
ü Elements of Thoughts to stretch the minds for ideas
& answers
ü Decision Making Techniques to enable participants to make
speedy & effective decisions
ü Critical Thinking Skills to guide participants with such
systems, methods & skills for application
ü Brainstorming Methods to guide participants in
maximizing the harvesting of ideas
ü Creative Problems Solving Skills to guide participants
with such systems, methods & skills for application (with case studies
and brain storming)
ü Brainstorming techniques to help participants harvest more
ideas, including solutions to day to day problems
ü There
will be creativity tests, case studies; and brainstorming sessions with given
challenging situations
ü Specially
selected videos to shed more lights into the subject matter
ü Tests
will be conducted to enable participants to understand themselves better
ü Power
points will be used in tandem with motivating, lecturing and coaching
NB: An integral part of
this training program is to guide and coach participants into their actual
areas of work that requires critical thinking...so that ideas will begin to
flow and problems can and always be solved.
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MODULE 1 - MOTIVATION
Objective: Motivation into the Realm of Strategic Thinking to Achieve
Peak Performance.
Topics covered include:
1. Self-Appreciation & Self-Respect
2. Effective Time Management
3. Potential versus Performance
4. Off the Rocking Chair Syndrome
5. Out of the ‘Valleity Trap’
6. Achieving Your Personal Everest
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MODULE 2 – LEADERSHIFT (PARADIGM)
Objective: To
understand how people react and why good ideas are lost is to understand all
about ‘paradigms’. How we think, view our life, accept challenges, solve
problems and understand things around us has to do with paradigms
Topics covered include:
1. Definition of Paradigm
2. Paradigm Shift
3. Paradigm Effect
4. Paradigm Paralysis
5. Paradigm Pioneers
Supported with a movie: ‘The
Business of Paradigm’.
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MODULE 3: PERSONALITY STYLES
Objective: To ensure primary personality
styles do not go overboard, flexible personality is adopted, personality
conflicts are annihilated. Thus, empowering strategic thinking to boost
teamwork is established.
Topic covered: As
per the subject title
Supported with a movie: “Personality
Integration & Teamwork”.
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MODULE 4: THE 6 THINKING HATS
Objective: To
enlighten participants to understand the six thinking-working modes that
exist in everyone; and to cultivate all six approaches within themselves
Topics covered: As
per the subject title.
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MODULE 5: MORE DECISION MAKING TECHNIQUES
Objective: To help participants make better decisions singly and
as a team
Topics Covered:
1. Making
good decisions
2. Decision-making
process
3. Test
on decision making skills
4. Decision
making techniques such as:
üThe
Vroom-Yetton-Jago Decision Model
üThe
Kepner-Tregoe Matrix
üOODA
Loops
üThe
Recognition-Primed Decision
(RPD) Process
üGrid
Analysis
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MODULE 6: ELEMENTS OF THOUGHTS
Objective: Guiding participants to put all
the pieces together before formulating a decision
Topics Covered:
Element 1: Define your Purpose
Element 2: Watch you Inferences
Element 3: Clarify your Concepts
Element 4: Check your Assumptions
Element 5: Understand your Point of View
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MODULE 7: STRATEGIC-CRITICAL THINKING & PROBLEM
SOLVING SKILLS
Objectives: Learn
how to handle and solve problems effectively and amicable.
Topics Covered:
ü Definition of Critical Thinking
ü Tests on ‘How Creative You Are’
ü Critical Thinking Skills
· Reason
Effectively
· Use
Systems Thinking
· Make
Judgments & Decisions
· Solve
Problems
ü Components of Critical Thinking
· Applying
Reasons
· Open
Mindedness
· Analysis
· Logic
· Don’t
Jump to Conclusions
· Objectivity
· Increased
Emotional Intelligence
ü Definition of Problems
ü Problems Solving Skills
· Inquiry
Skills
· Understanding
& Evaluation Skills
· Advocacy
Skills
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MODULE 8: BRAINSTORMING
Objectives: Generating
many radical & creative ideas.
Topics Covered:
ü The Charette Procedure
ü Reverse Brain Storming
ü BrainWriting
ü Round-Robin Brainstorming
ü Starbursting
ü The Stepladder Technique
ü Crawford''''s Slip Writing Method
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At the end of the workshop - participants
will understand and appreciate each other primary personality & working
styles, improve working relationship & foster teamwork; as well as able
to apply problem solving approaches, determine problem solving style, define
problems & determine root causes, generate alternate solutions, evaluate
and implement solutions; as well as able to harvest numerous ideas from the
various brainstorming approaches.
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ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR/FACILITATOR
Dr. William Leon Chua PhD, is the Founder, Chief Trainer and
Principal Consultant of DRC Management & Training PLT. He is a
sought-after management consultant; and compelling corporate trainer & motivator
on Leadership Empowerment, Strategic Management, Teambuilding, Inter-personal
& Communication skills, Strategic Marketing, Professional Selling Skills,
Customer Service, Sun Tzu Art of War, Corporate Ethics, Mind-set Change, TQM,
and High Performance Management etc. He speaks to audiences in Malaysia,
around the Asia-Pacific Region, and occasionally in Europe.
He was a member of the Malaysia Association of
Professional Speakers (MAPS) & the Malaysia Institute of Management (MIM)
and a registered corporate trainer with the Human Resource Development
Federation of Malaysia (HRDF).
Academically - he has acquired a Diploma in Sales Management from IMM, a
Diploma in Business & Management from Swansea, a BA majoring in
Psychology from University of Hawaii, a MBA and a PhD in Organizational
Behavior from IUKL.
Working Experience - With his more than 30 years of
multi-industrial experience complemented with his 20 years as a professional
corporate trainer, he has amassed volumes of skills and ideas. He is more
than a lecturer, he is a corporate trainer qualified with years of in-depth
multi-industrial experience. During this 2-day program he will impart 30
years of his research and invaluable experiences on the subject matter to the
participants.
All in all, he has provided corporate training to more than 700 companies
ranging from manufactories, universities, hotels, wholesalers……to banks and
insurance companies etc.
His approach to facilitating seminars is – research-based
& up-to-date informative, entertaining, highly motivating and at the same
time, serious in approach to ensure that learning is effectively projected
into action and results.
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