
Here's our agenda for this course...
What skillsets will have growing demand into the future?
Let's quickly discuss the references used for today’s Critical Thinking Masterclass...
If we want to get better at thinking so that we can think smarter it’s helpful to understand our modes of thinking. Let’s do a quick test.
What is Critical Thinking?
Let’s look at some of the reasons that thinking critically is important in the workplace.
Why don’t we automatically jump to critical thinking? It's all down to our Mindset.
What sort of skills or tools would we see if people were using critical thinking skills at work?
In this lecture, we introduce a quick and easy to remember framework that you can apply to critical thinking
What’s the difference between the CCD process introduced in the previous lecture... and the way we usually think?
In this lecture, we give you 5 learnable thinking strategies that will make you more effective at work and in your life.
Here you will learn how to get out of bad thinking habits by understanding the re-thinking cycle Vs the overconfidence cycle.
In this lecture you'll learn a simple "Sherlock Holmes" approach to problem solving.
How to apply our new Critical Thinking Skills to our health conundrum from earlier in the lessson.
We only get better at things through practice and there are several ways you can incorporate that practice in your daily life...
How to practice Critical Thinking by coaching your team members. This is especially useful if your team have been challenging or resisting change.
Let's review what we have learned throughout this course...
Apply what you learn and practice regularly; start with one or two things, take small steps, make steady progress, and you’ll achieve your goals.
The world is changing fast.
We need to be able to think ahead (not just from the past)…
We need to be able to gather information, identify new solutions, use reason & logic well and identify when our thinking may be biased or flawed.
The time to think smarter, to think differently, is now!
Welcome to: CRITICAL THINKING: How to Think Smarter
The quality of your thinking is the most important driver in problem-solving, decision-making and creativity and no leader or organisation can do without it.
The ability to think smarter, to think critically, sets great leaders apart from those who struggle to problem-solve or who can only use past experience as a reference …
You might hear those types of leaders say:
“We’ve always done it like this!”
While it might sound like it, critical thinking is not about being “critical”.
It’s about being reflective, creative, analytical and adaptable.
It’s a higher-order thinking ability.
Critical thinking skills strengthen foundations for strategic foresight.
Thinking Smarter means being able to think outside the box, use higher quality thinking techniques that lead to better results.
It’s something you can learn… and need to learn because leaders are often presented with problems with no easy or obvious solution.