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Critical Thinking

Demonstrate clearer and more effective critical thinking skills in your business role.

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The Key Issues

As a manager in international company, you can’t make decisions just based on a hunch. You need to be able to think critically and analyse the situation before making a decision. You need to be able to translate an abstract idea into something tangible and and apply different models to make sure you think critically.

Critical thinking skills

Flexible mind-set

Understand thinking styles

Key Competences​

Analytical & innovate thinking

Action planning using data

Drawing conclusions

The Right Programme for You

You are a manager or team leader and need to become a critical thinker and make better decisions in your role. You want to understand and learn how to do it, when to do it and why to do it.
  • Business Professionals
  • New Managers
  • Managers
  • Senior Managers

Highlights

Get your personal “My Thinking Styles Assessment” which looks at your thinking style preferences.

Learn and use the RED model for critical thinking – Recognize assumptions, Evaluate assumptions, Draw conclusions.

Be able to recognise weak arguments and adapt your critical thinking to them.

Learn, Practice and Use

  • Explore real-world examples of why critical thinking is so important in business
  • Learn to use critical thinking skills when making business decisions
  • Choose the right techniques to recognize assumptions, evaluate arguments and draw the right conclusions
  • Know how to translate an abstract idea into something tangible
  • Discover 7 ways to spot a weak argument
  • Minimize the impact of job pressures on your thinking processes
  • Get a roadmap for developing your critical thinking skills in your role
  • Identify 8 barriers to effective critical thinking
  • React with curiosity instead of emotion
  • Share your knowledge and challenges with your peers and MCE's highly experienced faculty

Programme Details

Critical Thinking is a 2 day face to face or 4 live online sessions hands-on training programme, highly interactive with exercises and role plays. The programme focuses on real world examples of why critical thinking is so important for managers today You learn how to use critical thinking skills to make the right business decisions and how to automatically use this in your day to day role.

Five Programme Modules

  • Defining critical thinking
  • Characteristics of effective critical thinkers
  •  The role of critical thinking in meeting business challenges
  • Using a framework to relate critical thinking to business challenges
  • Describing critical thinking using the RED (Recognise assumptions, Evaluate arguments, Draw conclusions) Model
  • Positioning the RED Model within a critical thinking framework
  • Recognising the value of gaining insight into one’s critical thinking skills
  • Relating critical thinking skills to other business skills
  • Uses for the “My Thinking Styles” assessment
  • “My Thinking Styles” Development Report
  • Your personal “Thinking Styles” Development Report
  • Identifying personal situations where critical thinking has been and could be used
  • Selecting techniques for using critical thinking skills and the RED model
  • Relating insight from your “Thinking Styles” report and feedback to a personal critical thinking situation
  • Practising using critical thinking skills and techniques in a real business situation
  • Initial action plan for development of critical thinking skills
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Bettina
Hausmann

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Bettina
Hausmann

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Hausmann

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Hausmann

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Hausmann

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