Embrace the Microsoft hype! Get 50% off on Microsoft Instructor-led Training courses!

MyGK
Support
Canada Canada - English
Checkout

Cart () Loading...

    • Quantity:
    • Delivery:
    • Dates:
    • Location:

    $

Subtotal

$

Checkout

or Continue Shopping

Course  
Contact Sales
Support
Checkout

Cart () Loading...

    • Quantity:
    • Delivery:
    • Dates:
    • Location:

    $

Subtotal

$

Checkout

or Continue Shopping

Request Group Training

Critical Thinking, Problem Solving & Decision Making

Improve your decision-making capabilities through critical thinking, structured reasoning, and creative problem analysis.

Learn how to be an inventive, logical decision maker by understanding the principles behind critical thinking and the tools used to consistently identify and select the best decision among multiple alternatives. In this course, you'll explore a structured way to approach and dismantle problems with a view toward optimum outcomes.

Applying the techniques of critical thinking allows you to dismantle complex problems and to understand the inputs and implications of your thought processes. By applying problem analysis and good practices you'll be able to develop positions and arrive at decisions that are logical and explicable to others. After completing the course, you'll understand why most decisions are of poor quality and be able to impose quality controls on both your decisions and the decisions of others.

GK# 2895 Vendor# Crit Think
Vendor Credits:
  • Global Knowledge Delivered Course
  • Training Exclusives
No matching courses available.
Start learning as soon as today! Click Add To Cart to continue shopping or Buy Now to check out immediately.
Access Period:
Scheduling a custom training event for your team is fast and easy! Click here to get started.
$
Your Selections:
Location:
Access Period:
No available dates
Add To Cart

BUY NOW

Request a quote

Who Should Attend?

This course provides an introduction to structured decision making. It is intended for any professional who is new to formal problem analysis, including: department managers, directors, supervisors, project managers, IT project managers, project coordinators, project analysts, project leaders, senior project managers, team leaders, product managers, program managers, associate project managers, stakeholders, team members, and all others responsible for resource allocations.

What You'll Learn
  •  Natural barriers to sound reasoning
  •  Bias and assumptions in problem analysis
  •  Thought processes and reasoning
  •  Analytical techniques for comparing alternative solutions
  •  Structure, standards, and ethics of critical thinking
  •  Problem analysis best practices

Hands-On Exercises

  • Evaluate the strategic thinking of others
  • Assess the reasoning of others
  • Problem solving by starting with restatement of the issues
  • Problem solving from a number of different perspectives
  • Identify decision-making factors
  • Creativity and the decision-making process
  • Structure the analytical process with a matrix
  • Evaluate decision options using probabilities
  • Compare options using paired ranking

Course Outline

1. Introduction to Decision Making

  • What's a Decision?
  • High Quality vs. Low Quality Decisions
  • Becoming a Better Decision-Maker

2. Barriers to Brilliant Decisions

  • Instinctive Decision-Making
  • Barriers to Sound Reasoning
  • Outlook vs. Reality

3. Critical Thinking

  • What Is Critical Thinking?
  • Structures of Thinking
  • Thinking with Standards
  • Sophistry and Intellectual Ethics

4. Problem Analysis Guidelines

  • Opening the Mind
  • 10 Best Practice Guidelines
  • Structuring Techniques
  • Putting It All Together

5. The Decision

  • Who Decides?
  • Who Should Decide?
  • Take Home Message
BUY NOW

PDUs

This course qualifies you for the following PMI® Professional Development Units (PDUs):

Classroom Live and Virtual Classroom Live

  • Leadership = 10
  • Strategic and Business Management = 4

Total = 14

BUY NOW

Follow-On Courses