Learn how to build and expand your critical thinking skills.

By applying critical thinking to the tasks and challenges you face in your work, you will begin to experience breakthroughs you never thought possible - and maximize your value to your company when it’s facing the challenges of economic uncertainty. You will feel sure you really are applying critical thinking - that you really have “thought of everything!”.

How You Will Benefit

• Become familiar with different styles of thinking and identify your personal critical thinking preferences
• Ask yourself “big picture” questions
• Learn how to use critical thinking to challenge assumptions and expand perceptions about situations
• Come to better conclusions and decisions more often
• Influence and persuade others with critical thinking and clear language
• Manage team idea exchanges
• Learn how to find out what you don’t know—and solve the real problem
• Apply your improved critical thinking skills to the day-to-day operation of your business

What You Will Cover

What Is Critical Thinking

• Recognize what makes excellent critical thinking
• Distinguish elements of the thinking process
  

How Can Critical Thinking Be a Contact Sport?

• Build a framework for integrating values and rational skills
• Understand how critical thinking works in a team setting
  

How Can I Develop and Apply Excellent Critical Thinking Skills

• Develop a path to reasoned judgment
• Explore new approaches for developing all four brain systems
• Follow a structural critical thinking process to keep track of your thinking
  

How Can I Use More of My Brain to Sharpen My Critical Thinking Skills?

• Discover your own thinking style preference
• Identify the four brain quadrants and their respective multiple intelligences
• Build a metaphoric model for “thinking teams”
• Perform contrastive analysis of individual thinking styles and data

Why Do We Need Critical Thinking in the 21st Century Workplace?

• Apply the Socratic method for problem solving in a team setting and personal goal setting
• Develop a working understanding of whole-brain thinking as a tool for building intellectual empathy
• Influence others with clear critical thinking

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.

Additional Information

Seminar Schedule