Thinking critically — asking questions, evaluating information, and coming to unbiased conclusions — will be one of your greatest assets as a leader.
Thinking critically — asking questions, evaluating information, and coming to unbiased conclusions — will be one of your greatest assets as a leader. This course on "Developing Critical Thinking Skills" will help you identify what skills you can practice to improve your critical thinking, as well as blind spots and types of biases to watch out for as you apply critical thinking to the events and situations around you. With stories and examples, this course shows you where you would see critical thinking in business decisions and strategy, and you'll come away with a better awareness of how to grow as a leader.
Critical thinking is an incredibly important skill to have as a leader making business decisions. Critical thinking looks past individual bias to knowledgeably evaluate the information given around an issue. This course walks you through how to develop critical thinking skills, including how to identify problems and sort through data, how to know what's relevant, and how to ask questions. It also illustrates how critical thinking can be applied to business situations, how it fosters good judgement, and helps you make the right decisions for your team members, customers, and clients. If you want to grow in your career, you'll need to make good, informed decisions — and critical thinking will be your foundation.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand critical thinking and its benefits
- Learn the steps to effective critical thinking
- Understand the impact of bias in the workplace
- Learn how to ask complex questions
- Learn how to evaluate data and determine its relevance
- Develop good judgement and critical thinking in decision-making situations
- Discover how to reflect upon your actions
Skills you’ll gain
Analytical SkillsAnalytical ThinkingCritical ThinkingInfluencing SkillsQuestioning SkillsStudy SkillsWhat You'll Learn
- Understand what critical thinking is and the benefits it offers as a leader
- Apply the steps to effective critical thinking, including identifying problems and sorting through data
- Recognize the impact of bias in the workplace and the types of biases to watch for
- Ask complex questions and evaluate data to determine its relevance
- Develop good judgement and apply critical thinking in decision-making situations
- Reflect on your actions and apply critical thinking to business decisions and strategy
Key Takeaways
- Critical thinking means asking questions, evaluating information, and coming to unbiased conclusions.
- Critical thinking looks past individual bias to knowledgeably evaluate the information surrounding an issue.
- Applying critical thinking fosters good judgement and helps you make the right decisions for team members, customers, and clients.
- Effective critical thinking involves identifying problems, establishing significance and priority, asking complex questions, and analyzing outcomes.
- Making good, informed decisions is foundational to growing in your career, and critical thinking is the basis for it.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who is this course for?
It is aimed at leaders who want to grow in their careers and make good, informed business decisions, helping them improve their critical thinking and develop greater awareness as a leader.
What does this course cover?
It covers what critical thinking is and its benefits, the steps to effective critical thinking, identifying problems and sorting through data, knowing what is relevant, asking complex questions, the impact of bias in the workplace, using good judgement, making decisions, and reflecting on your actions.
What skills will I gain from this course?
The course develops analytical skills, analytical thinking, critical thinking, influencing skills, questioning skills, and study skills.
How does the course teach critical thinking?
It uses stories and examples to show where you would see critical thinking applied in business decisions and strategy, and it includes lessons and Test Your Knowledge checkpoints.
How is critical thinking applied to business?
The course illustrates how critical thinking can be applied to business situations, how it fosters good judgement, and how it helps you make the right decisions for your team members, customers, and clients.
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Welcome to KnowledgeCity's course on "Developing Critical Thinking Skills." Critical thinking is a common daily activity. Every time you make a decision, the process you go through involves some degree of critical thinking and this process is often automatic. Critical thinking is a soft skill that can be an incredible asset as you progress in your career. This course is designed to teach you the fundamentals of what critical thinking is and how to implement it in your day-to-day work. You will learn the processes used in critical thinking, how critical thinking is used in decision making, and how critical thinking can be used to resolve any problem. Most people tend to think in terms of their own biases, self interest, or emotions. Developing your critical thinking skills allows you to look past your own biases, gather and evaluate information, as well as collaborate with others to incorporate their feedback to generate new innovative ideas and solutions. Are you ready to learn this powerful skill?
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