Demonstrate clearer and more effective critical thinking skills in your business role

Highlights:
• Get your personal  "My Thinking Styles Assessment" which looks at your thinking style preferences
• Learn and use the RED model for critical thinking - Recognize assumptions, Evaluate assumptions, Draw conclusions

Key Competencies:
• Critical thinking skills
• Flexible mind-set
• Understand thinking styles
• Analytical & innovate thinking
• Action planning using data
•  Drawing conclusions

Critical Thinking is a hands-on training programme, highly interactive with exercises and role plays. The programme will be led by an experienced facilitator with former management experience in international companies.

5 Programme Modules:

1 - Recognising 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

2 - A Critical Thinking Process
• Using a framework to relate critical thinking to business challenges
• Describing critical thinking using the RED (Recognise assumptions, Evaluate arguments, Draw conclusions) Model
• Positioning the RED Model within a critical thinking framework

3 - Obtaining Feedback on Your Critical Thinking Skills
• Recognising 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 

4 - A Context for Critical Thinking
• 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

5 - Applying Critical Thinking Tools and Skills in Business Situations
• Practising using critical thinking skills and techniques in a real business situation
• Initial action plan for development of critical thinking skills

You are a manager or team leader and need to become a critical thinker and make better decisions in your role. You want to understand and learn how to do it, when to do it and why to do it.


Typical Participants:
• Managers