Building Your Thinking Power I: Mental Flexibility

Mental flexibility can be defined as a way of thinking - an atitude. It's a way of approaching situations that allows you to adapt your behavior so you can achieve the best outcomes. By increasing your mental flexibility, you become a better listener, a keener observer, a more skilled thinker and a more effective problem solver.

Exercises

Developing listening and feedback skills

Exercising perceptual skills and mental flexibility

Interpreting information in an open-minded way

Determining what causes people to react negatively

Increasing awareness of varying points of view

Illustrating the importance of suspending value judgements and waiting for more information

Learning semantic flexibility and its impact on the thinking process

Thinking strategically

Time:

2 - 2.5 hours