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Critical Thinking and Decision Excellence in an AI-Enabled Environment
The Key Issues
Artificial intelligence (AI) is advancing rapidly offering us tools that can analyze vast amounts of information and generate insights at a speed humans cannot match. Yet, the real challenge for us is not simply using AI’s outputs but learning to think critically about these systems. Success in an AI-enabled environment depends on our ability to evaluate AI’s recommendations, recognize its limitations and apply our own judgment to make sound decisions.
In this programme, you’ll learn to build upon your critical-thinking skill set. We will explore how AI can serve as a powerful aid and not as a replacement for human reasoning. You’ll examine the opportunities AI presents for personal and professional decision making while also addressing the risks and responsibilities that come with relying on AI-generated answers. By the end of the programme you’ll confidently be able to integrate AI into your decision-making process as a trusted thinking partner.
AI-Enabled Decision Making
Critical
Thinking
Judgment under Uncertainty
Key Competences
Bias Awareness
Ethical AI Use
Effective Prompting
The Right Programme for You
You are a manager, leader or business professional working in an AI-driven environment and you want to sharpen your critical thinking to improve decision making. You are currently using AI tools and want to move beyond surface-level adoption toward responsible and effective integration. You have a basic understanding of AI tools and their outputs and want to strengthen your ability to evaluate AI recommendations and apply them effectively.
- Business Professionals
- New Managers
- Managers
- Senior Managers
Highlights
Learn, Practice and Use
- Recognize how AI tools work and their limits enabling you to approach its outputs with curiosity and healthy skepticism
- Evaluate AI’s recommendations critically by questioning, testing and validating the outputs before applying them
- Differentiate between human judgment and AI assistance and know when to rely on your own expertise, values and intuition
- Apply prompting strategies to guide AI toward more accurate, relevant and useful responses enabling better human decision making
- Identify personal or organizational opportunities to use AI effectively in your daily work to enhance and not replace your decision making
- Detect and mitigate bias or misinformation in AI outputs to ensure your decisions remain ethical and responsible
- Communicate and defend your decisions by combining AI insights with your own reasoning
- Build a personal action plan for experimenting with AI and strengthening your critical thinking as the technology evolves
Programme Details
Harnessing the Power of AI and Critical Thinking for Better Decision Making is a 2-day training programme designed to help managers and business professionals make better decisions in an AI-driven environment. The programme focuses on balancing human judgment with AI-generated insights, strengthening critical thinking, and ensuring responsible and effective use of AI in everyday decision making.
Eight Programme Modules
1 | Reviewing Your Decision-Making Process
- Reflect on your existing decision-making process from simple to complex scenarios
- Evaluate the factors that impact the quality of decision making
- Identify opportunities where AI can be integrated to enhance decision making
2 | Organizational Culture and AI Decision Making
- Evaluate individual and team decision-making culture and AI literacy
- Identify key stakeholders involved in AI-supported decisions
- Apply a framework to balance human judgment and AI assistance within your organization
3 | Where Does AI Add Value?
- Identify opportunities where AI can enhance decision-making effectiveness
- Assess the quality and accessibility of data to support reliable AI insights
- Align AI use cases with strategic business priorities
4 | Matching AI Tools to the Thought Process
- Explore different AI tools and their specific applications
- Experiment with AI tools to support and enhance critical thinking
- Evaluate the impact of AI outputs on decision quality
5 | Validating AI-Driven Recommendations
- Define evaluation criteria for AI recommendations
- Apply a “trust but verify” approach to reviewing AI outputs
- Assess decision context to determine when to accept, adapt or reject AI recommendations
6 | Improving the Quality of and Trust in AI Outputs
- Design stronger inputs using precise prompts and verified data sources
- Align AI tools with organizational context, goals and priorities
- Improve AI outputs through fact-checking and role-play exercises
7 | Ensuring Responsible AI Use
- Recognize and mitigate bias in AI outputs
- Define accountability for decisions supported by AI
- Expand organizational policies to address AI-driven decision making
8 | Building an Executable AI Action Plan
- Identify one immediate opportunity to enhance decision making with AI
- Outline steps to apply an AI-driven decision-making framework
- Develop an implementation roadmap that strengthens critical-thinking skills as AI evolves
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