Working on your analytical skills: scenario making for executive cognitive functions

Description

Scenario making (aka scenario thinking and scenario analysis) is a method deriving from military intelligence. Businesses and organisation began to rely on it to define and brainstorm on long-term strategic plans. In recent years, scenario making became quite common even in Psychology (psychotherapy) and Social Sciences. 

In the context of this training module, learners will be faced against simple daily-life challenges (i.e you are stuck in the traffic and your car’s engine stops working, what do you do now?). For ach scenario, they will be required to:

1. Evaluate and assess possible (re)actions
2. evaluate and assess the effects that such (re)actions might trigger
3. evaluate and assess further outcomes 

 There will not be correct or wrong answers, this is not a test nor a “behavioural quiz”; learners are required to develop themselves the outcomes that their decision might generate in order to better assess the following cause-effect implications. This is conceived as an exercise for them to train their cognitive flexibility regardless of the accuracy and adequacy of their decisions.

Objective of this module is to stimulate targets’:

• Critical Thinking
• Creativity
• Analytical thinking and reasoning
• Imaging 
• Reactiveness and responsiveness

Wrap up

1. Defining the issues
2. Gathering data
3. Separate certainties from uncertainties
4. Evaluate what might happen if…