Critical Thinking Skills
This course teaches you to be aware of, and to manage, emotions and relationships. It will teach you how to connect with peers and subordinates and how to manage your own emotions, as well as the emotions of others. This can play a part in determining how successful you are in both the business environment and your personal life.
Description
Critical thinking is the ability to think reflectively and independently in order to make thoughtful decisions. By focusing on root-cause issues critical thinking helps you avoid future problems that can result from your actions. In this course, ICL leadership trainer and expert outlines a series of techniques to help you develop your critical thinking skills. He reveals how to define the problem you're trying to solve and then provides a number of critical thinking tools such as blowing up the business, asking the 5 whys and the 7 so whats, exploring the 80/20 rule, and more. He also provides guidance on how to develop this skill across your whole team.
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
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Identify how to break down complicated issues into smaller components.
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Determine the definition of an effective problem statement.
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Identify the primary benefit of focusing questions.
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Identify a problem's root causes.
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Apply critical thinking tools to analyze and unpack consequences.
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Recognize how to prepare others to think critically.
How will this Training Course be Presented?
Live-Online
Who is this Training Course for?
This course is ideal for you if you are a knowledge worker in need of a wide range of thinking and problem-solving skills or anyone interest in gaining a new perspective and a set of skills that can be used to address everyday problems in life and work.
The Course Content
Introduction
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Welcome to critical thinking
What Is Critical Thinking?
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The importance of critical thinking
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Distinguish causes vs. consequences
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Break big problems into small ones
Thinking the Problem Through
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Define the problem statement
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Understand the real question
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Ask focusing questions
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Examine past efforts
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Use new lenses to think critically
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How to find root causes
Using Critical Thinking Tools
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Challenge how the business operates
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Use the five whys of critical thinking
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Answer the seven so-whats?
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Use the 80/20 rule to think critically
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How to successfully conduct analysis
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Consider the implications of answers
Practice Critical Thinking
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Teach others how to think critically
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Common pitfalls when solving problems
Conclusion
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Apply critical thinking every day