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Management & Critical Thinking

Get the key skills you need to manage and motivate your team. Demonstrate clearer and more effective critical thinking skills in your business role.

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The Key Issues

You are a great team player and you do a great job in your role. But now you are being promoted to management and for the first time you need to manage a team. That is not always easy. How do you motivate people, give them feedback, and make sure the strategy gets done?

In addition, as a manager, 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.

Delegation strategies

Coaching
skills

Performance management

Key Competences​

Understand thinking styles

Analytical & innovate thinking

Action planning using data

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 need to improve your management skills and become a great allround manager.

  • Business Professionals
  • New Managers
  • Managers
  • Senior Managers

Highlights

Learn how to use clear goal setting and professional feedback to manage your team on a daily basis

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

Learn, Practice and Use

  • Understand your management roles and responsibilities.
  • Improve communication with your team & set expectations for you and your direct reports.
  • Adapt your management style to meet the needs of individual team members.
  • Communicate organizational goals that get results.
  • Use effective coaching techniques to maximize your team’s performance.
  • Understanding and using the conversational triangle in your management role.
  • Explore real-world examples of why critical thinking is so important in business.
  • Choose the right techniques to recognize assumptions, evaluate arguments and draw the right conclusions.
  • Discover 7 ways to spot a weak argument.
  • Identify 8 barriers to effective critical thinking.
  • Minimize the impact of job pressures on your thinking processes.
  • React with curiosity instead of emotion.

Programme Details

Management & Critical Thinking is a highly interactive programme with exercises and role plays

Eleven Programme Modules

  • Discovering the qualities and abilities required for effective management.
  • Identifying the roles and responsibilities managers perform.
  • Exploring the contextual issues and challenges that new managers face today.
  • Defining the goal of performance management.
  • Identifying the process and challenges.
  • Practicing the skills of performance management.
  • Describe the importance of communication to effective management.
  • Recognizing the qualities of effective communication.
  • Understanding the process of communication and the barriers that can derail it.
  • Recognizing different types of work conversations.
  • Identifying the two key conversation skills.
  • Understanding and utilizing the conversational triangle.
  • Identifying the importance of and requirements for coaching.
  • Learning the micro-skills of effective coaching
  • Confronting problem behaviours in a tactful manner.
  • Using the AMA Guide to manage a coaching discussion.
  • Differentiating between coaching and disciplining.
  • Recognizing the manager’s role in employee motivation.
  • Exploring important elements of the motivational process.
  • Utilizing managerial practices for building a motivational climate
  •  Recognizing the manager’s role in employee motivation
  • Exploring important elements of the motivational process
  • Utilizing managerial practices for building a motivational climate
  • Describing the types of delegation that managers can engage in
  • Identify the importance of, and the barriers to, effective delegation
  • Assessing your current delegation practices and their challenges
  • Recognizing what can and can’t be delegated
  • Identifying the phases of effective delegation
  • Practicing delegation discussion
  • 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
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Bettina
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Hausmann

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Hausmann

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Hausmann

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