Puzzling It Out: Problem Solving and Insight Thinking for Business

Anyone who wants to learn new lateral-thinking and problem-solving approaches in order to gain fresh insights into business challenges.

• Learn principles of “how to solve it”
• Ask pointed questions to overcome roadblocks and advance toward a solution
• Use the entire problem-solving apparatus in your brain, to find new ways of thinking outside the box
• Simplify problems to see the key points, and search for alternative ways to solve them
• Collaborate with others to gain insight and get unstuck
• Increase your confidence and have more fun when trying something new

• Insight thinking: general problem-solving strategies and techniques
• The puzzle-solving toolbox in your head: assessing skills you know you have, discovering ones you don’t know you have, reigniting long-forgotten childhood processes, integrating your right and left brain, tapping into your subconscious
• Asking questions when: your intuition is wrong, your path to the solution is inefficient, the information is incomplete, multiple answers are possible, the answer is unexpected
• A workshop of classic and modern puzzles: number puzzles, word puzzles, logic puzzles, visual puzzles, lateral thinking puzzles for team problem solving, and more
• Applications to business: brainstorming, deconstructing and reassembling business issues to get at workable solutions, enlivening communication, spotting errors, addressing situations from your work

Special features

In a supportive setting, you will work to solve puzzles and problems of all types. Experience the mental expansion that comes when you challenge yourself, and recognize how these mind-opening skills can be applied in business.

For financial assistance opportunities, please refer to Financial Assistance, Scholarships and Team Rates .