Critical Thinking Skills Training
Critical Thinking Skills Training Course Details:
This course provides you with tips, techniques, and thought exercises that help to develop critical thinking skills. It’s not about criticizing others— it’s about understanding the problem, evaluating the evidence, and making logical and thoughtful decisions. It’s a skill that can help your organization find smart solutions to tricky problems, avoid emotional thinking and mistakes, and work together more efficiently.
No classes are currenty scheduled for this course.
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Lesson 1: Understanding Critical vs. Noncritical Thinking
- The Case for Critical Thinking
- Recognize Deceptive Reasoning
- Detect Emotional Manipulation
- Styles of Noncritical Thinking
- Critical Thinking Styles
- Become a Critical Thinker
- Part Summary
Lesson 2: Recognizing and Evaluating Arguments
- Define Arguments
- Step 1: Pinpoint Issues
- Step 2: Identify Arguments
- Step 3: Seek Clarity
- Step 4: Understand Context
- Step 5: Find Credibility
- Step 6: Look for Consistency
- Step 7: Judge Arguments
- Present Ideas Powerfully
- Part Summary
Lesson 3: Developing and Evaluating Explanations
- Explanations vs. Arguments
- Formulate Explanations
- Element 1: Gather Information
- Element 2: Process Information
- Element 3: Develop Hypotheses
- Element 4: Test Hypotheses
- Ask Discovery Questions
- Challenge Assumptions
*Please Note: Course Outline is subject to change without notice. Exact course outline will be provided at time of registration.
- Define critical thinking
- Identify and adopt the characteristics of critical thinking
- Recognize and avoid critical thinking mistakes
- Identify assumptions
- Evaluate information accurately and thoroughly
- Distinguish between fact and opinion
- Implement the critical thinking process in business situations
Business professionals who want to enhance their thinking processes to achieve better results in business.