Master Course on Critical Thinking Skills & Decision Making

Explore metacognition and critical thinking to strengthen decision making, problem solving, and learning amid information overload. Develop higher order thinking to navigate complexity and support ethical decision making.

Develop a critical thinking mindset by learning to ask the right questions, analyze and evaluate information, discern fact from fiction, and practice case studies, cognitive biases, and decision making.

Explore the characteristics of a critical thinker, including being inquisitive, open minded, objective, analytical, and reflective, while separating facts from opinions and using reframing tricks to test assumptions.

Distinguish facts from assumptions using two mini-cases on ad ROI and work-from-home challenges, and sharpen reflective, reasonable critical thinking to separate truth from belief.

Explore cognitive biases and personal bias, learn to recognize how bias and hidden assumptions shape decisions, and examine common critical-thinking mistakes like misinterpreting statistics, jumping to conclusions, and emotional thinking.

Develop critical thinking by mastering reason, prediction, and evaluation, and distinguish cause and effect from correlation while evaluating evidence and recognizing bias in decision making.

Apply a critical thinking approach by asking questions and engaging with information, using the peeling the onion style to evaluate evidence and form personal conclusions.

Challenge myths about banning smartphones in schools and explore their impact on learning and safety. Use the art of asking the right questions to uncover evidence and evaluate claims.

Develop critical thinking and decision making by exploring case 2: asking the right questions to reveal weaknesses in arguments about bike parking, safety incidents, and proposed ride sharing solutions.

Identify the issue and the conclusion in persuasive communication to evaluate reasoning and form reasoned responses, using the example of shifting training sessions to the afternoon for better learning.

Identify the issue and craft a conclusion on mandatory ChatGPT sessions to improve workplace productivity, using a case study that contrasts declines and gains across organizations.

Identify the issue, the conclusion, and the reasons that justify it, using evidence, beliefs, metaphors, and analogies, and apply a questioning attitude to assess why the conclusion holds.

Identify how the fallacies of ambiguity weaken reasoning by examining vagueness and multiple interpretations, and learn to clarify terms, question assumptions, and assess the reasons behind conclusions.

Identify value conflicts and challenge assumptions to improve critical thinking, decision making, and constructive dialogue. Examine scenarios like gun control and environmental conservation to balance differing values and underlying premises.

Identify how the straw man fallacy distorts an opponent's position to attack an exaggerated version, then compare it with the hasty generalization fallacy.

Identify the slippery slope fallacy in arguments about AI integration, privacy, surveillance, and employment, and learn to spot unsubstantiated assumptions, inevitability claims, and lack of causation.

Learn how the appeal to popularity fallacy misleads health judgments and why popularity alone fails as evidence, illustrated by alternative medicine trends and influencer endorsements.

Explore how appeal to emotions, the either-or fallacy, and the red herring mislead arguments, and learn to evaluate evidence-based reasoning for sound conclusions.

Explore the difference between claims, facts, and evidence in critical thinking, and learn how to evaluate dependability and adequacy of evidence for sound reasoning and persuasive communication.

Evaluate personal testimonials as evidence within critical thinking by balancing intuition, personal experience, and empirical data to avoid biased conclusions.

Navigate appeal to authority, personal observations, and discernment to evaluate evidence. Scrutinize research methods and descriptive statistics to recognize biases and generalizability when forming well supported conclusions.

Unmask deceptive statistics by examining how data are gathered and presented, questioning averages (mean, median, mode), and spotting omissions and misleading conclusions.

Spot deception by recognizing omitted information, examine absolute numbers versus percentages, and ask for relevant comparisons to evaluate statistics and strengthen critical thinking for better decision making.

Explore how to apply critical thinking to problem solving and decision making by analyzing information, identifying underlying issues, and making informed, impartial decisions.

Learn to collect adequate inputs and hear all sides, judge logically in decision making, avoid fallacies, and stay flexible to revise decisions as new information emerges.

Apply the four steps of decision making through critical thinking to a market expansion dilemma in emerging markets, analyzing data neutrally, gathering inputs, avoiding fallacies, and staying flexible.

Explore the Socratic method to foster critical thinking, intellectual humility, and self-awareness through probing questions. Apply it in classrooms and business for challenging assumptions, analyzing evidence, and exploring multiple perspectives.

Apply critical thinking to the mysterious book club case study, identify hasty generalization and ambiguity, and test intuition by collecting data on members' book preferences to guide decision making.

analyze a case of misguided evaluation to expose hasty generalization and ambiguity, and advocate objective performance metrics, formal feedback, and fair procedures in decision making.

Develop critical thinking to evaluate health choices, assess sources, evidence, misinformation, and propaganda, and make informed decisions about budgeting, work problems, relationships, shopping, politics, and stress management.

Develop lifelong critical thinking by questioning assumptions and analyzing information, fostering thoughtful inquiry that supports rational, analytical decision making. Navigate world complexities with discernment and clarity.

Explore how Doctor Matthew Thomas, a seasoned leadership consultant and executive coach, integrates eastern philosophy, western esotericism, and modern management techniques to boost leadership development.