Critical Thinking Training

In this Critical Thinking Training course, you will learn how to leverage critical thinking and creative problem-solving techniques to solve organizational issues in a corporate environment. You will learn about:

• Left and right-brain thinking
• Spur creativity
• Outcome-based thinking

Critical Thinking Training Benefits

• In this leadership course, you will:

  • Learn to make better decisions through critical thinking and creative problem-solving.
  • Enhance your personal creativity through proven tools and techniques.
  • Apply critical processes to assess work issues and problems.
  • Transform your creativity into practical business solutions.
  • Continue learning and face new challenges with after-course one-on-one instructor coaching.

• Prequisites

  None.

Critical Thinking Training Outline

Module 1: Critical Thinking and Creative Problem-Solving Essentials

In this module, you will learn how to: 

• Apply creative problem solving in the workplace
• Differentiate between creativity and innovation
• Apply the steps of critical thinking and understand the connections between ideas and facts
• Analyze and evaluate data and establish significance
• Identify various conclusions, weigh strengths, and limitations of all possible outcomes

Module 2: Leveraging Personal Thinking Styles

In this module, you will learn how to:

• Identify your own natural brain dominance with the Triune Brain Theory
• Assess your preferred approach to thinking, along with your strengths and opportunities
• Leverage your left- or right-brain dominance
• Enhance your whole-brain thinking
• Recognize and adapt to others’ preferred thinking styles

Module 3: Unleashing Your Creativity

In this module, you will learn how to:

• Explore your own creativity
• Utilize tools and techniques to become more creative
• Identify elements that stimulate creativity
• Eliminate barriers to innovation
• Avoid groupthink, which can lead to poor outcomes
• Unscramble the iterative mind
• Move between the left and right brain
• Value non-dominant preferences
• Deploy divergent and convergent thinking

Module 4: Solving Problems Using Analysis and Prioritization Tools

In this module, you will learn how to:

• Apply analysis models for problem solving
• Set priorities for taking action to solve a problem
• Evaluate problems around people, process and technology
• Deconstruct problems using the stair-step technique, which focuses on solving a problem step-by-step
• Create a satisfaction scale to help you choose the best solution

Module 5: Translating Creativity and Analysis into Practical Application

In this module, you will learn how to:

• Overcome the "It won't work here" mentality
• Analyze for outcomes, not solutions
• Clearly express analysis results

Module 6: Putting It All Together

In this module, you will learn how to:

• Reinforce your newly developed creative thinking skills
• Construct a blueprint for your action plan
• Educate others with creative tools
• Practice creative and critical thinking skills