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Critical Thinking Skills

This course provides you with tips, techniques, and thought exercises that help to develop critical thinking skills and perceive others’ viewpoints with clarity.

This course provides you with tips, techniques, and thought exercises that help to develop critical thinking skills. It’s not about criticizing others— it’s about understanding the problem, evaluating the evidence, and making logical and thoughtful decisions. It’s a skill that can help your organization find smart solutions to tricky problems, avoid emotional thinking and mistakes, and work together more efficiently.

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Who Should Attend?

Business professionals who want to enhance their thinking processes to achieve better results in business.

What You'll Learn
  • Define critical thinking
  • Identify and adopt the characteristics of critical thinking
  • Recognize and avoid critical thinking mistakes
  • Identify assumptions
  • Evaluate information accurately and thoroughly
  • Distinguish between fact and opinion
  • Implement the critical thinking process in business situations

Course Outline

Lesson 1: Understanding Critical vs. Noncritical Thinking

  • The Case for Critical Thinking
  • Recognize Deceptive Reasoning
  • Detect Emotional Manipulation
  • Styles of Noncritical Thinking
  • Critical Thinking Styles
  • Become a Critical Thinker
  • Part Summary

 

Lesson 2: Recognizing and Evaluating Arguments

  • Define Arguments
  • Step 1: Pinpoint Issues
  • Step 2: Identify Arguments
  • Step 3: Seek Clarity
  • Step 4: Understand Context
  • Step 5: Find Credibility
  • Step 6: Look for Consistency
  • Step 7: Judge Arguments
  • Present Ideas Powerfully
  • Part Summary

 

Lesson 3: Developing and Evaluating Explanations

  • Explanations vs. Arguments
  • Formulate Explanations
  • Element 1: Gather Information
  • Element 2: Process Information
  • Element 3: Develop Hypotheses
  • Element 4: Test Hypotheses
  • Ask Discovery Questions
  • Challenge Assumptions
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Related Certifications

Attendees who successfully complete this training course will receive 6 SHRM PDC's towards the SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP Certification and/or 6 HRCI credits towards the aPHR®, PHR®, or SPHR® Certification, after course completion.