Your analytical thinking and coaching skills will determine whether you thrive in the increasingly disrupted post COVID future of work.
Yet traditional advice in analytical thinking so often leads to disasters, as revealed by research in behavioral economics, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. So what are the best practices for Fortune 500 firms to make the right calls on analytical thinking and coaching scenarios?
Fortune 500 firms recognize that behavioral science has revealed that our typical approach to analytical thinking skills suffers from systematic dangerous judgment errors called cognitive biases. Fortunately, recent scholarship has revealed effective yet counterintuitive strategies to enable you to defeat these cognitive biases. In this course, you will learn about and address these dangerous judgment errors, while mastering techniques for analytical thinking and coaching drawing on cutting edge behavioral science and real world best practices from Fortune 500 companies.
After taking this course, you will:
· Solve typical challenges in analytical thinking and coaching scenarios using Fortune 500 firm best practices
· Master emotional and social intelligence research based approaches to analytical thinking and coaching
· Develop a plan with specific next steps to adapt for your toolkit analytical thinking and coaching best practices from Fortune 500 firms
· Discover how Fortune 500 firms defeat dangerous judgment errors (cognitive biases) that harm quality assurance & analytical thinking and coaching
· Align these strategies with International Coaching Federation Core Competencies for analytical thinking and coaching skills
This course has received International Coaching Federation (ICF) approval for 12 continuing coaching education (CCE) credits, including 5 core competency credits and 7 resource development credits (Resource Development includes training formerly called Personal Development, Business Development, or Other Skills and Tools).
ICF Core Competencies Covered in the Course
Creating awareness in analytically minded people of their emotions and situations when their analytical mindset may be causing them problems
Direct communication with analytically minded people, balancing hard data and research with than stories and questions
Establishing trust and intimacy, through using the kind of evidence that is convincing to analytically minded people
Active listening, to determine whether someones learning style is deductive or inductive and targeting their specific information consumption needs
Establishing the coaching agreement, focusing on preparing for the almost inevitable conflicts and addressing emotions
Sounds too good to be true? I used these methods successfully at Fortune 500 companies such as Aflac, Applied Materials, Entergy, Honda, IBM, Reckitt, Wells Fargo, and Xerox. Over the last two decades, I coached and trained the leaders at these Fortune 500 companies, as well as at numerous middle market companies and quickly growing startups, as the CEO of the boutique future proofing consultancy Disaster Avoidance Experts.
Besides such real world, pragmatic expertise, I have a strong academic background as a behavioral scientist studying analytical thinking, coaching, decision making, and emotional and social intelligence. I spent 8 years at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, first getting a PhD and then serving as a lecturer there. Then, I spent 7 years as a professor at the Ohio State University Decision Sciences Collaborative and History Department. There, I published dozens of peer reviewed articles on this topic in high quality academic journals such as Behavior and Social Issues and Journal of Social and Political Psychology. Thus, this course is thoroughly informed by cutting edge research.
This combination of business and science led to my expertise gaining global recognition. I published over 550 articles and gave over 450 interviews for prominent venues, such as Fortune, USA Today, CNBC, Fast Company, CBS News, Business Insider, Inc. Magazine, and Time.
That is what you can expect in this course: methods used successfully at even the biggest companies, thoroughly informed by cutting edge research, and featured in top media venues and best selling books around the globe.
Course Content and Structure Overview
The textbook for this course is my bestseller on analytical thinking and coaching, The Truth Seekers Handbook: A Science Based Guide.
The course is self paced, consisting of modules which the participants can complete any time they want.
For each module, participants in the course will first read the book chapters. Then, participants will answer questions in the book chapters. Each chapter has references for additional readings that participants are invited to check out for additional context on any concepts about which they wish to learn more.
Next, participants will watch the video for each segment, which uses case studies to apply the content of the readings to real life coaching scenarios
After each video, the participants should journal for 20, 30 minutes about how they can apply the strategies described in the book and video to their coaching
I look forward to welcoming you into the world of evidence based, science driven techniques tested in the real world of many Fortune 500 companies and numerous middle market companies and startups. To ensure that you master analytical and coaching thinking best practices drawn from behavioral science and tested in Fortune 500 companies, register now.
Who this course is for:
Anyone who wants to learn analytical thinking and coaching skills from Fortune 500 firms will get benefits from this course
