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Provider:
AMA (American Management Association International)
Topic(s):
Leadership & Management > Team Building
Who Should Attend?
Directors, leaders, managers, project managers, supervisors and individual contributors, as well as all business professionals who wish to apply critical thinking skills to real-world business situations for improved results
- Critical Thinking: A New Paradigm for Peak Performance
- Moving From an Operational Manager to a Strategic Thinker
Full Seminar Description
This course will give you two full days to practice applying a critical thinking model to the situational challenges you encounter in your own organization. Working through a series of practical cases, you will explore the impact that corporate culture, competing priorities, globalization, technology and diverse communication styles have on critical thinking. You’ll learn strategies and tactics for effectively navigating complex problem solving and decision making and become better prepared to take appropriate action in each situation. Finally, you’ll have the opportunity to apply the critical thinking process you’ve learned to a specific challenge you’re facing at work and receive feedback from your instructor and peers to improve your effectiveness. Fee per person: $2445; $2195 for AMA members.Take critical thinking to the next level by applying it to complex business situations.
This course will give you two full days to practice applying a critical thinking model to the situational challenges you encounter in your own organization. Working through a series of practical cases, you will explore the impact that corporate culture, competing priorities, globalization, technology and diverse communication styles have on critical thinking. You’ll learn strategies and tactics for effectively navigating complex problem solving and decision making and become better prepared to take appropriate action in each situation. Finally, you’ll have the opportunity to apply the critical thinking process you’ve learned to a specific challenge you’re facing at work and receive feedback from your instructor and peers to improve your effectiveness.
How You Will Benefit
This course will help you to understand the essential skills for effective critical thinking and how to apply them in a variety of business situations. You will learn to identify a practical model for working through the critical thinking process in complex situations at work, and be able to select specific techniques to improve how you recognize assumptions, evaluate arguments and draw conclusions. In addition, you’ll be able to recognize “mind tricks” that can derail critical thinking—and what you can do about them. The seminar will give you insights into how corporate culture, time pressures, emotion, communication and other aspects of organizational life impact critical thinking. You will return to work equipped to apply the critical thinking process to your individual work situation and be able to help others arrive at better decisions.What You Will Cover
- Applying critical thinking in a business context and dealing with challenges to it in the work environment
- Critical thinking and communicating as part of a cross functional or virtual team
- Interactive Critical Thinking Tool Kit: ten tools for enhanced critical thinking
- Applying the RED model and using the ten skills for critical thinking in a familiar business situation
- How situational factors impact critical thinking when recommending a new product or policy
- Addressing the affects of communication, cross-cultural issues and working virtually on critical thinking
- The impact of competing demands, limited resources and conflicting information on critical thinking in a business setting
- Dealing effectively with the pitfalls that create roadblocks to effective decision-making
- Making critical thinking a practical, applicable skill by working through business scenarios such as setting a marketing strategy and making a business case
- Analyzing a difficult issue requiring critical thinking in your own work situation and developing an action plan
Who Should Attend
Directors, leaders, managers, project managers, supervisors and individual contributors, as well as all business professionals who wish to apply critical thinking skills to real-world business situations for improved results.NOTE: It is recommended that you first take AMA’s Critical Thinking before registering for this course.
Sponsor Background:
The American Management Association was founded in 1923. They have built a content control check into every one of their professional seminars. Plus a series of checks and balances to ensure that the content of every AMA seminar is precisely targeted to:- 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
Whether you're looking for a solid foundation of business fundamentals or strategies to help you seize growth opportunities for your company, AMA offers expert instruction to help you:
- manage your priorities effectively
- cultivate more productive working relationships
- increase your on-the-job value
- align your skills with marketplace demands
- bring out the best in people, processes and yourself
Cancellation and Refund Policy
If you cannot attend a seminar you may contact AMA in advance to transfer to a future session, or can send someone to take your place. If you need to cancel your attendance, AMA will give you a complete refund if you cancel more than three weeks before your seminar begins. To cancel, simply call. If you cancel with less than three weeks' notice, you will be liable for the entire seminar fee, however you may request a courtesy transfer to use at any future AMA seminar of equal or lesser value. The courtesy transfer must be used within one year of the date of your originally scheduled seminar. In fairness to all attendees, if you do not attend a seminar session for which you are confirmed, and do not cancel with a minimum of three weeks’ notice as described above, you will be charged the entire seminar fee.
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