Critical Thinking Skills
Course Description
A whole-brained approach to problem solving and decision making.
This workshop is for people who want to understand what is happening in their jobs, solve problems more effectively, develop more innovative, creative decisions and implement decisions more successfully to satisfy internal and external customers.
Our four-pronged approach helps you to:
- Gather the facts needed
- Generate new, innovative ideas, approaches and solutions
- Evaluate what makes the most sense
- Get agreement, commitment and support
You will learn how to:
- Apply your new skills to actual job issues.
- Address the most important issues.
- Find the root cause of problems.
- Prepare and present recommendations which support proposed solutions to actual job issues.
- Learn creative thinking techniques to help you develop more innovative and effective solutions.
- Build team commitment for implementation of action plans.
The workshop is stimulating and interactive, and involves trainer presentations, discussion, case-study exercises, and application to work-related projects.
Duration: 2 days
Introduction
Basic Thinking Process
The Four Critical Thinking Skills
Situation Assessment
Problem Solving
Decision Making
Recommendations
Creativity in Decision Making
Action Planning
Integration into the Workplace