PROGRAMME OVERVIEW
Thinking is natural. Critical thinking, however, is a more active mode of thinking where the thinker consciously separates facts from opinions and challenges assumptions to make informed, reasoned decisions instead of emotionally driven ones.
Learning how to become a critical thinker is an acquired skill that many people believe they possess but very few do. The development of critical thinking skills is crucial because with critical thinking abilities one can solve myriad of problems effectively with good analysis, quality decisions and focused actions. Most CEOs and senior managers already possess critical thinking abilities. Think for a moment, if everyone in the organisation, from top down, acquires this ability and consistently applies this skill at work, the organisation will no longer be on a trajectory for incremental growth but for exponential growth. That will be a formidable competitive advantage that will whack your competitors like a hedge hammer!.
TARGET AUDIENCE
Managers, Supervisors, Senior Executive
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Understand critical thinking
- Develop critical thinking skills
- Apply critical thinking in life
DURATION
2 days
CONTENTS
- Critical Thinking: What It Is and Why It Matters
- Understanding the importance of critical thinking
- The Thinking Process
- The physiology of the brain and its impact on thinking
- The 3 Key Components of Critical Thinking: Analysis, Evaluation, Re-thinking
- Analysis of the different types of information
- Managing Information with critical thinking methodologies
- Key Steps to strengthen Reasoning Skills
- Finding evidence for evaluation
- 4 Elements of Critical Thinking
- How to evaluate Critical Thinking skills
- Barriers to Critical Thinking
- How to apply Critical Thinking to
- Problem Solving
- Decision Making
- Strategic Planning
- Communication
12. Putting It All Together
