Learn how the ground-breaking study on cognitive bias can help your team(s) avoid costly mistakes. In this course, you’ll discuss how to recognize faulty thinking, inflated self-assessments, recognize blind spots, and discover business myths that often masquerade as facts - precisely because they feel like facts. If there’s one course every company should take, it is this course on organizational myth making.

KEY CONCEPTS

• Introduction to the Dunning Kruger Effect

• Case Study on human wrongness

• Explore the root cause of faulty thinking

• Observe how ill-informed ideas can spread like a virus

• How the Dunning Kruger Effect manifests at work

• Important tools and insights on overcoming the all-too-common Dunning Kruger Effect at work

From PREVIOUS WORKSHOPS

This module sheds light on some rather common mistakes and faulty thinking that lead to multi-tasking.  In this presentation you’ll demonstrate quick and powerful object lessons to illustrate the mental drag of context switching and its cost to productivity.

KEY CONCEPTS

• To do two things at once is to do neither (Syrus)

• It’s easy to confuse being busy with being productive

• The culprit of faulty thinking

• Demonstration of fast and slow thinking (object lesson)

• The cost of context switching

• What’s really happening

• Tools for mono-tasking

• Understand the barriers to switching tasks

  • Recognize multi-tasking feels like productivity

  • Identify, eliminate, & manage distractions

  • Learn to filter priorities

  • Focused time allocation

  • Helpful responses to the unexpected

• Group discussion on ways to better mono-task