COURSES

This introductory course introduces the practical skills that enable you to think critically yet quickly — allowing you to develop innovative solutions to even the most intractable problems.

You will learn how to think about situations in a structured way to help separate important ‘facts’ from ‘noise’ and build a critical thinking skill set to increase your performance in almost every other area of life.

Key takeaways

• See situations clearly by distilling the relevant information from the noise that surrounds and obscures the issue.
• Uncover how unconscious biases drive our behaviour when we simply treat something as given.
• Understand how other people can see the same situation differently and why their understanding differs.
• Learn to map cause and effect logic in simple logical diagrams to verify that arguments make logical sense.

Recurring problems are loops driven by factors outside our direct control. This course teaches how to use cause-and-effect branches to break those loops. You will learn a structured process for analysing your own and others’ logic and identifying false assumptions and gaps.

Key takeaways

• How to Understand and scope problem areas
• Learn a technique to scrutinise and improve logic
• Diagram and think in really clear cause-and-effect logic
• How to identify the core set of concerns that can be used to analyse logic for flaws

This course shows you how to hone in on people's wants and actions to formulate win/win solutions to conflicts. Learn how to take a mental step back from decisions and disagreements to understand the true drivers of your problems, clarifying the situation and clearing the way for fast, but effective, decisions.

Key takeaways

• Identify the key elements of any conflicting situation to properly understand the conflict at hand.
• Make your own decisions more clearly without wondering if you made the right choice.
• Become natural at seeking to understand other people’s perspectives.
• Easily refocus on the conflict drivers to access win-win solutions.

Discover the importance of a few key principles when delegating, offloading, or setting up standard operating procedures. Learn how to test the logic and impact of your actions before executing.

Key takeaways

• Understand the importance of effect-based delegation
• Discover the psychology behind delegation: People perform best when the requested actions are framed as guides or recommendations
• Learn how to gather the four key pieces of information for anything that needs to be done
• Learn the skills to create simple transitions in written form or as a table

Many great solutions can get nowhere because we focus on a negative side effect. Rather than throwing away a great solution, learn to identify, verify, and protect against show-stopping negatives.

Key takeaways

• Predict the potential negative outcomes of choices and understand how they will come to be using cause-and-effect logic.
• Strategies to combat the negative side effects that are unlikely to occur and often hold good ideas back.
• How to use the Negative Branch Review (NBR) injection and causality tools to understand which concerns aren’t valid and the critical injection needed to reach the desired outcome.

Learn a new system to structure a “master change plan” and “pre-verify” that proposed solutions will work before moving ahead.

Key takeaways

• Know how to break down a goal into a series of rapidly achievable intermediate objectives.
• See how to uncover pitfalls that could result from any proposed change initiative and determine what you should do to “navigate” around them.
• Learn how to use obstacles to create a path (knowing obstacles tells us what we must overcome).
• Sequence our objectives logically to make the simplest plan forward.

Thinking of plans and execution in a logical sequence – only needing to focus on the most relevant next steps.

Create plans focused on effects and their logical sequence, ensuring they are clear and practical, with identified next steps and quantifiable outcomes.

Key takeaways

• The effectiveness of focusing on pre-requisites rather than preferences
• How a focus on effects causes more robust plans
• A planning approach that scales from small and simple to large and complex
• How to practically and quickly estimate timings with better certainty

People don’t do things for random reasons. There is always an underlying reason. This course teaches how to use cause-and-effect tools to understand why people do what they do and how to change it.

Key takeaways

• Understand that behaviour is cause and effect (not random) and needs to be understood and influenced within this context.
• Learn how to identify the root cause driving specific behaviour, and the antecedent and consequences driving it.
• The actions you can apply to influence antecedents and consequences for behavioural change.

Problems are interconnected, with a cascading cause-and-effect that worsens each other. This course will show you how to identify the core issue driving the problems in the first place and the appropriate remedial steps to take. You’ll also learn how to test your own logic when you think you have a great idea, so you can check that it really does make sense.

Key takeaways

• Discover how persistent problems, and those that may seem unconnected, typically share a core underlying driver.
• How combining multiple Druids can be used to uncover the driver causing the problems and reveal the necessary remedial action.
• Learn a process for rigorously assessing whether your idea will have the intended effect in the subject area.