How To Drive Change Within Your Organization
Fostering the culture of flexibility to
Think Critically and being innovative within your organization is no
longer a luxury…It is a necessity.
Critical thinking is the ability to correctly approach a situation from
different perspectives in order to develop the best possible action.
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. These skills provide
ways to face business challenges with more
effective decisions and greater confidence.
Utilizing models, application and skills
practice, this seminar 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
Course
Benefits
- 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
- Know 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
What Will Be
Covered
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
Understanding the Components of
Critical Thinking
- Using the Agile Critical Thinking™
Framework to relate critical thinking to
business challenges
- Describing Critical Thinking using
the R (Recognize Assumptions) E
(Evaluate Arguments) D (Draw
Conclusions) Model
- Positioning the RED Model within the
ACT framework
- Identifying practices and techniques
in each part of the framework
Obtaining Feedback on Critical
Thinking Skills
- Recognizing the value of gaining
insight into one’s critical thinking
skills
- Relating critical thinking skills to
other business skills
- The purpose of the Watson-Glaser
Critical Thinking Appraisal
- Identifying the contents of the
Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking
Development Report
- Interpreting a sample Watson-Glaser
Profile
- Your personal Watson-Glaser
Development Report
Using Critical Thinking in
Business Situations
- Identifying personal situations
where critical thinking has been and
could be used
- Selecting techniques for using
critical thinking skills in the ACT
framework and RED model
- Relating insight from Watson-Glaser
feedback to a personal critical thinking
situation
Applying Critical Thinking in
Business Situations
- Practicing using critical thinking
skills and techniques in a real business
situation
- Creating an initial action plan for
development of critical thinking skills
Who Should Attend
Executives, directors,
managers, team leaders and other business
professionals who are required to apply
critical thinking to handling both daily and
“big picture” issues and challenges.
