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Critical Thinking with AI: Check, Then Decide, 410+ Tools
1,858 students
Critical Thinking with AI: Check, Then Decide, 410+ Tools
Too many opinions, AI answers and reports? Critical thinking, logic, biases, problem solving and decision making
Last updated 10/2026
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What you'll learn
- Decide on evidence when every source sounds sure: take 410+ templates, procedures, checklists and question lists in 53 downloadable resources
- Build clear reasoning with logic and argumentation, and spot errors in reasoning
- Recognise cognitive biases and check sources, facts, data and AI answers
- Apply critical thinking to project decisions: business case, scope, risks, schedules, budgets and KPIs
- Prepare and facilitate strategy sessions that challenge assumptions and end with priorities
- Frame and solve problems with 5W1H, SCQA, MECE, 5 Whys, Ishikawa, Pareto, SCAMPER and TRIZ
- Think like a business analyst: stakeholders, requirements, user stories, process analysis and change impact
- Make better decisions and manage risk with ready templates
- See tools on screen, including ChatGPT, Notion, Airtable, Confluence, Figma and Microsoft Project
- Learn with Mike, the #1 HR instructor on Udemy: 1,800,000+ enrollments, 170,000 students, about 200 books on Amazon
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Course content
7 sections • 39 lectures • 19h 7m total length
Requirements
- No prior training in logic or analysis required
- Access to any AI assistant helps for the prompts
- English at intermediate level or above, since all lessons are in English
Description
This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.
Every day brings news, posts, reports, opinions and AI-generated answers, and all of them sound confident. The scarcest skill is no longer knowledge, it is the ability to check before you decide. Here are 418 tools for that: 311 ready-to-use templates, procedures, checklists, question lists and AI prompts, 82 models and methods, 15 working files and 10 services shown on screen.
Open a lecture, take the template, and check the next decision on your desk.
Why smart people still decide badly
Decisions are made on the most recent opinion, the loudest voice or the first answer an AI gave. Problems are solved before they are defined, assumptions are not tested, and projects and strategies inherit the same blind spots. Critical thinking is listed as a requirement in job ads, but almost nobody teaches it as a set of tools.
What changes after this course
You check arguments, sources and AI answers before you rely on them. You frame problems, find root causes, generate and test options, and facilitate group decisions. And you apply the same tools in projects, strategy sessions and business analysis, where a wrong assumption is most expensive.
What is inside: 418 tools, counted lecture by lecture
You do not have to take this number on trust. Open any lecture and read its description: every tool inside is listed there by name.
- 53 downloadable resources: lecture presentations plus 15 working files, including a requirements traceability matrix, a stakeholder register, a change request impact analysis and a business analyst interview script
- 311 ready-to-use tools inside the presentations:
- 87 templates and sample documents: problem statement canvas, hypothesis falsification, Ishikawa diagram, five-line decision brief
- 79 step-by-step procedures: four-step critical thinking, argument construction, evidence triangulation, Five Whys
- 46 checklists: data validation, chart verification, research appraisal, root cause validation
- 38 question lists and scripts: argument evaluation, cognitive bias detection, source credibility assessment, decision premortem
- 27 scorecards, rubrics and matrices: evidence hierarchy, risk probability-impact matrix, impact-effort matrix, idea screening
- 18 ready AI prompts: business problem framing, Five Whys analysis, requirements conflict analysis, change request impact analysis
- 10 formulas and metric sets and 6 other working tools: earned value metrics, process bottleneck metrics, problem versus trouble decision tree, MoSCoW prioritization
- 82 models and methods explained with examples: dual-process theory, deductive reasoning, abductive reasoning, Minto pyramid principle
- 10 services shown on screen, including ChatGPT, Notion, Airtable, Confluence, Figma and Microsoft Project
Where the tools are
Critical thinking foundations (2 sections, 26 tools). Logic, argumentation, cognitive biases, source analysis and fact-checking.
Project decisions (1 section, 91 tools). Business case, stakeholders, scope, plans, schedules, budgets, roles, KPIs and closing.
Strategy sessions (1 section, 48 tools). Preparing, diagnosing, facilitating and turning choices into priorities.
Advanced troubleshooting (1 section, 131 tools). Problem framing, root causes, Pareto, SCAMPER, TRIZ and group decisions.
Business analysis (1 section, 113 tools). Stakeholders, requirements, user stories, process analysis, systems thinking and change.
Decisions and risk (1 section, 19 tools). Decision making, problem solving and risk management.
Who is teaching
I am Mike, the #1 HR instructor on Udemy, with 1,800,000+ course enrollments from 170,000 students, and the author of about 200 books on Amazon. I built the people system at Preply as it became a unicorn and worked at Wargaming, iDeals and Alfa-Bank across 20 years in HR. I hold PHRi, SHRM-CP and HCI sHRBP certifications and represent HRCI in Eastern Europe. I am also a founder and lead the strategy of my own academy.
I first met critical thinking as a business term at the STB TV channel, where my top managers kept asking for candidates with critical thinking. When we started getting feedback that candidates lacked it, I asked what exactly they meant, and it turned out each of them defined and tested it differently. As head of recruitment I facilitated a meeting where we agreed on the behavioural indicators and how to check them in an interview.
How to use the course
Start with the foundations sections, then go to the section closest to your work: projects, strategy, troubleshooting or business analysis. Section and lecture titles show how many tools are inside, and each lecture description lists them by name.
What is included
- 39 lectures across 7 sections, 19 hours
- 53 downloadable resources: lecture presentations and 15 working files
- 418 tools across the lessons, including 10 services shown on screen
- A 10-question practice test, a quiz and a role play
- Lifetime access to all materials
- Active instructor support in the Q&A section
- A Udemy Certificate of Completion
Where to start
Take one decision you need to make this week, write down the assumption it rests on, and open the logic and argumentation lecture. Enrol now and start your first lesson today.
Who this course is for:
- Managers and team leads who make decisions under pressure
- Project managers and business analysts
- Specialists who evaluate reports, data and AI-generated answers
- Strategy and operations professionals
- Anyone who wants to think more clearly before acting