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Problem solving
- Learn the importance of framing problems appropriately so that you try and right solutions!
- Learn how to spot faulty assumptions/biases in how you are viewing a problem situation
- Learn how to utilise exceptions in order to generate solutions to problems
- Learn why problems get stuck and our role in keeping them stuck
- Creating solvable problems
We will spend 90% of the time, if not more in autopilot mode. We will jump from problem to problem, moving forward at pace. This type of thinking will often help you to move forward. However, there will be occasions, for whatever reason that we seem to get stuck. No matter what we try, the problem seems to stay in place. We get more frustrated, we utilise more and more energy, seemingly getting more and more stuck. The issue stays at the forefront of our mind whereby we try another solution, hoping it will solve the issue. Only days later you find that the problem is still there, and in some cases, the problem has got worse! Why is this? This course will help you to work through this very challenge.
Applying some of the most modern thinking in problem solving, we will help you to get unstuck. You will come away from this course with a set of thought experiments that you can apply to any situation, even when you are not stuck. These thought experiments are empirically based and will super charge your problem solving abilities to help you get unstuck. If you apply them in the right way consistently, they will prevent you from getting stuck in the first place.
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Dr Mike Rotheram, External Consultant, Performance Mind
Mike is a HCPC Registered Performance Psychologist and Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychological Society. He is the Director of Performance Mind Ltd and currently works as the Performance Psychologist with the England Women's Cricket Team. He also works as a Psychology Technical Lead within the English Institute of Sport supporting GB Boxing, British Athletics, GB Para Table Tennis and Cricket. Mike has a wealth of experience in the world of performance. He has been through three Olympic cycles with the GB Speed Skating team and recently finished working with the England Lions Cricket team. Mike completed his PhD in 2007 at Sheffield Hallam University. His PhD looked at the psychological mechanisms which underpin severe performance breakdowns such as the ‘yips’. Over the past 10 years he has worked as a performance consultant within education, business and health. He has worked extensively within Lancashire Education Authority delivering leadership training and coaching. He has also worked with the Royal Bank of Scotland, Natwest, Boots and the NHS bringing the principles of performance psychology to the front line. Mike is a passionate and engaging presenter and brings the theory to life with his rich experience of working on the coalface in elite sport. |
For more information see the Performance Mind Website here.