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AMA: Critical Thinking (2533)

Overview

Demonstrate clearer and more effective critical thinking skills for business

Feeling overwhelmed? What if you could learn a process for thinking to make better decisions and create better solutions? Learn hands-on techniques to generate breakthrough ideas and solve your most pressing problems. In this course, you’ll discover how to ask the right questions, challenge assumptions, and see others’ viewpoints with clarity.

You’ll learn how to:

Translate abstract ideas into tangible results
Evaluate ideas objectively
Solve problems more effectively
Make dramatically better decisions

Objectives

Explore real-world examples of why critical thinking is so important in business
Learn to use critical thinking skills when making business decisions
Choose the right techniques to recognize assumptions, evaluate arguments and draw conclusions
Discover 7 ways to spot a weak argument
Know how to translate an abstract idea into something tangible
Identify 8 barriers to effective critical thinking
Minimize the impact of job pressures on your thinking processes
React with curiosity instead of emotion
Get a roadmap for developing your critical thinking skills

Content

Course Outline

1. Recognizing the Value of Using Critical Thinking in Business

Defining critical thinking
Characteristics of effective critical thinkers
The role of critical thinking in meeting business challenges
A Critical Thinking Process

2. Using a framework to relate critical thinking to business challenges

Describing critical thinking using the RED (Recognize assumptions, Evaluate arguments, Draw conclusions) Model
Positioning the RED Model within a critical thinking framework
Obtaining Feedback on Your Critical Thinking Skills

3. Recognizing the value of gaining insight into one’s critical thinking skills

Relating critical thinking skills to other business skills
Uses for the "My Thinking Styles" assessment
"My Thinking Styles" Development Report
Your personal "Thinking Styles" Development Report
A Context for Critical Thinking

4. Identifying personal situations where critical thinking has been and could be used

Selecting techniques for using critical thinking skills and the RED model
Relating insight from your "Thinking Styles" report and feedback to a personal critical thinking situation
Applying Critical Thinking Tools and Skills in Business Situations

5. Practicing using critical thinking skills and techniques in a real business situation

Initial action plan for development of critical thinking skills

Audience

Prerequisites

Before attending this session, you will receive a link to the online "My Thinking Styles" assessment. You must complete the assessment to participate fully in this seminar.