Critical Thinking

Course Description:

Critical thinking is the ability to correctly understand information, a situation or problem from different perspectives in order to take or suggest the best possible action. In 21st century business, it's truly an essential skill for success—and a proven way to distinguish yourself and your organizational contributions. Critical thinking skills provide ways to arrive at better decisions with greater confidence, and can help you clearly determine what matters in the face of any business challenge.

Utilizing models, application and skills practice, this one day workshop gives you the knowledge and tools you need to effectively apply critical thinking in your organization. Rather than focusing on the science of critical thinking, the course explores the art of applying critical thinking skills in a business setting and gives you hands-on practice and feedback so you can use it immediately when you return to work.

Key objectives:

Understand critical thinking and receive feedback and a roadmap to help you develop your critical thinking skills

Learn and practice critical thinking skills and techniques

Be able to use critical thinking skills when making business decisions and taking action

Select specific techniques to improve how you recognize assumptions, evaluate arguments or draw conclusions

Understand how to take abstract ideas and make them more tangible

Distinguish between fact and opinion more readily

Be more aware of how emotion, time pressure, style and limited resources affect your thought processes and decisions

Recognize how critical thinking relates to other cognitive processes

Promote critical thinking as a valuable practice in a high-performing workplace