Critical Thinking Skills in Business

Critical Thinking is a learned skill: focused on how rather than what to think

As organizations reduce management levels and flatten out the org. chart, business critical thinking in the form of problem solving and decision making skills becomes a major component in effective delivery of products and services. Our critical thinking skills training workshop is designed to equip team members, colleagues, contract workers and management with the critical thinking skills to: enhance employee problem solving thus reducing "upward delegation", equip supervisors, team leaders and managers with skills to discover unintended consequences of decisions, and to enable them to present options within a financial framework. The command and control culture is giving way to a more team oriented environment. Our critical thinking workshop provides all employees and associates within the organizational structure with the skills to exhibit behavior consistent with this team oriented culture.

At the conclusion of our Critical Thinking Skills Workshop, participants will be able to:

Gather, sort, organize, analyze, and verify data
Use good listening skills
Ask open, probing questions
Describe assumptions, alternatives and risk levels
Use a financial approach to determining the best option
Present a business case based on a scientific thought process
Think in terms of the motivational needs of others
Refocus others thinking based on unintended consequences
Conditionally agree when "no" is not a viable response
Support and/or explain a decision or recommendation
Think more strategically

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Critical Thinking Skills in Business

Critical Thinking is a learned skill: focused on how rather than what to think

At the conclusion of our Critical Thinking Skills Workshop, participants will be able to:

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