Different Intelligences for Business Breakthroughs

Overview/Description
 Our society prizes people who excel in school. Academic curricula and standardized testing are the benchmarks of successful schools and learners. People with high marks who've attended big-name schools often get the job. But there are many different kinds of intelligences, and often the ones not tested in school are the most important to being successful in the business world. This course will help the learner use her many intelligences to enhance work. By developing and using intelligences we don't often use, we can approach and solve problems differently--for breakthrough thinking.

Target Audience
 Anyone who wants to understand different intelligences and improve approaches to problem solving

Expected Duration
2.5 hours

Lesson Objectives:

Academic Intelligences

  • recognize the importance of understanding academic intelligences.
  • choose characteristics of using academic intelligences at work.
  • select examples of methods for developing academic intelligences in a given scenario.
  • use academic intelligences to solve a problem in a given scenario.
  • use appropriate methods and terminology in a given scenario to communicate with people whose dominant intelligences are academic.

    • Artistic Intelligences

  • recognize the importance of understanding artistic intelligences.
  • choose characteristics of artistic intelligences.
  • select examples of methods for developing artistic intelligences in a given scenario.
  • select the approach that uses the appropriate artistic intelligence to solve a problem in a given scenario.
  • select examples of methods and terminology to use in a given scenario to communicate with people who rely on artistic intelligences.

    • Emotional Intelligences

  • recognize the importance of understanding emotional intelligences.
  • select characteristics of emotional intelligences.
  • identify examples of methods for developing emotional intelligences in a given scenario.
  • identify examples of using emotional intelligences to solve problems.
  • use emotional intelligence to communicate in a given scenario.

    • Course Number: PD0226