Critical Thinking: A New Paradigm for Peak Performance

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Detailed Overview/Outline

Learn how to build and expand your critical thinking skills.

By applying critical thinking to the tasks and challenges you face in your work, you will begin to experience breakthroughs you never thought possible. You will feel sure you really are applying critical thinking—that you really have “thought of everything!”

This seminar will include several videotapes, as well as case studies and a self-scoring critical thinking style assessment that will be administered in class.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
Executives, directors, managers, team leaders and other business professionals who are required to apply critical thinking to handling both daily and “big picture” issues and challenges.

This Seminar Features Blended Learning

AMA Blended Learning combines instructor-led training with online pre- and post-seminar assessments, tune-up courses and other resources to maximize your training goals. Through a blend of proven instructor-led seminars and powerful online technology, AMA Blended Learning provides a compelling and more comprehensive experience for the learner—producing a greater return-on-investment for the employer and the seminar participant.

HOW YOU WILL BENEFIT:

• Become familiar with different styles of thinking and identify your personal critical thinking preferences
• Ask yourself “big picture” questions
• Learn how to use critical thinking to challenge assumptions and expand perceptions about situations
• Come to better conclusions and decisions more often
• Influence and persuade others with critical thinking and clear language
• Manage team idea exchanges
• Learn how to find out what you don’t know—and solve the real problem
• Apply your improved critical thinking skills to the day-to-day operation of your business

WHAT YOU WILL COVER:

What Is Critical Thinking

• Recognize what makes excellent critical thinking
• Distinguish elements of the thinking process

How Can Critical Thinking Be a Contact Sport?

• Build a framework for integrating values and rational skills
• Understand how critical thinking works in a team setting

How Can I Develop and Apply Excellent Critical Thinking Skills

• Develop a path to reasoned judgment
• Explore new approaches for developing all four brain systems
• Follow a structural critical thinking process to keep track of your thinking

How Can I Use More of My Brain to Sharpen My Critical Thinking Skills?

• Discover your own thinking style preference
• Identify the four brain quadrants and their respective multiple intelligences
• Build a metaphoric model for “thinking teams"
• Perform contrastive analysis of individual thinking styles and data

Why Do We Need Critical Thinking in the 21st Century Workplace?

• Apply the Socratic method for problem solving in a team setting and personal goal setting
• Develop a working understanding of whole-brain thinking as a tool for building intellectual empathy
• Influence others with clear critical thinking

Extended Description

Learning Objectives

• Use a Socratic Approach to Get to the Heart of a Problem
• Discover and Apply New Principles of Thinking
• Break through Barriers to Innovation
• Understand Different Thinking Styles
• Expand Your Thinking Capacities
• Comprehend How Other People Think and Use This Knowledge to Your Advantage
• Exercise Intellectual Empathy to Think Things through from Someone Else’s Perspective
• Challenge Assumptions
• Influence Others with Clear Thinking
• Generate Solutions That Work Instead of Putting Out Fires That Reignite
• Find Out What You Know and What You Don’t Know
• Use Structured Methods for Preventing Analysis Paralysis

What Is Critical Thinking?

• Use the Socratic Method for Personal Goal Setting
• Develop a Working Definition of Critical Thinking

How Can Critical Thinking Be a Contact Sport?

• Build a Framework for Integrating Values and Rational Skills
• Understand How Critical Thinking Works in a Team Setting

How Do You Know That? Challenging Assumptions

• Understand Socratic Dialogue Techniques
• Identify Assumptions
• Use Active Listening and Effective Communication Strategies to Build Rapport While Probing for Assumptions

Why Do We Need Critical Thinking in the Workplace?

• Apply Critical Thinking to Reading
• Apply the Socratic Method for Problem Solving in a Team Setting
• Listen Critically fro Assumptions and Point of View
• Develop a Working Understanding of Whole-Brain Thinking as a Tool for Building Intellectual Empathy

How Can I Develop Excellent Critical Thinking Skills?

• Distinguish Elements of the Thinking Process
• Develop a Path to Reasoned Judgment
• Recognize What Makes Excellent Critical Thinking

How Can I Use More of My Brain to Sharpen My Critical Thinking Skills?

• Discover Your Own Thinking Style Preference
• Identify the Four Brain Quadrants and Their Respective Multiple Intelligences
• Build a Metaphoric Model for "Thinking Teams"
• Perform Contrastive Analysis of Individual Thinking Styles and Data

What Is Intellectual Empathy and How Can Thinking Teams Help Build These Skills?

• Use a Structured Problem-Solving Model to Prevent "Analysis Paralysis"
• Read Another Person’s Thinking Style Quickly and Accurately Using a Map
• See How Friction Develops between Teams That Use Opposite Thinking Styles
• Build a Protocol for Changing That Friction into Creative Tension

How Can I Expand My Thinking Capacities?

• Integrate What You Have Learned So Far Using Diagramming Techniques
• Explore New Approaches for Developing All Four Brain Systems

How Can I Integrate the Information I’ve Learned Using a Map of the Critical Thinking Process?

• Identify the Elements of Critical Thinking
• Follow a Structured Critical Thinking Process to Keep Track of Your Thinking

How Can I Apply This Information in the Real World?

• Build a Critical Thinking Tool Kit
• Develop a Personal Action Plan
• Choose a Follow-up Partner
• Commit to Practicing One Skill in the Next Two Weeks

3 days/1.8 CEUs

Sponsor Background:
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• provide comprehensive, hands-on training that is of practical use when you return to the job
• focus on need-to-know specifics, relevant to the demands of global business today
• offer the expertise and personalized attention of top-ranking instructors
• facilitate your career development and business savvy

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• manage your priorities effectively
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• align your skills with marketplace demands
• bring out the best in people, processes and yourself

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