Introduction
Today's businesses are driven by a knowledge-based society, and the more critical you think the better your knowledge will be. Critical thinking provides you with the skills to analyse and evaluate information so that you can obtain the greatest amount of knowledge from it. It provides the best chance of making the correct decision and minimizes damage if a mistake does occur. Critical thinking also assists you in undertaking a situational analysis to verify the nature of the situation and to see whether there is a problem indeed and to address the possible implications and consequences of an action or non-action taken. This high-impact workshop will provide you the skills to evaluate, identify and distinguish between relevant and irrelevant information. You will learn to identify and overcome deceptive reasoning and handle emotional manipulations in conversations and this will make you become a better problem solver and an effective decision maker. The workshop will introduce you to a powerful and easy to apply five stage process that will stimulate your critical thinking.At the end of this programme, participants will be able to:
- Demonstrate and identify with different styles of thinking and determine their personal preferences.
- Identify how to challenge assumptions and expand perceptions about situations.
- Identify and overcome biases and prejudice that affects your thinking.
- Identify barriers to innovation and explain ways to overcome these barriers with critical thinking.
- Develop a framework to apply critical thinking for innovation – the five-stage process.
- Define problems and break down into its constituent components.
- Arrive at better conclusions and decisions by learning to overcome groupthink mentality.
- Apply critical thinking skills to narrow/close performance gap in problem solving process.
- Influence and persuade others with clear thinking and Meta-cognitive language.
- Evaluate arguments and outcome of decisions made for peak performance.
- Apply what has been learnt to the day-to-day operation of the organization.
1. Introduction to Critical Thinking: demonstrate and identify with distinctive styles of thinking and determine their personal preferences
2. How do you know that? Challenging Assumptions: Identify how to challenge assumptions and expand perceptions about the situations
3. Factors that Determine Effective Innovation:
- Identify and overcome biases and prejudice that affects your thinking.
- Identify barriers to effective thinking and explain ways to overcome these barriers.
4. What to do now? Thinking situations: Developing a framework to apply critical thinking for peak performance using the five-stage process.
5. Solving ill-defined problem with critical thinking:
- define problems and break down into its constituent components.
- apply critical thinking skills to narrow/close performance gap in problem solving process
6. Dynamic decision making using critical thinking: Arrive at better conclusions and decisions by learning to overcome groupthink mentality.
7. Critical thinking for persuading and influencing others and evaluating arguments.
8. Four strategies to become a critical thinker.
Methodology
Competent-based approach incorporating participants engagement in role play activities, group discussion, hands-on practices and case study analysis. This workshop uses an activity-based approach using gamification and lego® serious play concept. Participants will be actively encouraged to engage in building models to demonstrate pain points in critical thinking and innovation and come up with solutions that can be applicable.
Entrepreneurs, business owners, executives, senior executives, managers, and department managers
Standard Course Fee: S$1308
SSG Funding Support | Course fee | Course fee payable after SSG funding, if eligible under various schemes | |
BEFORE funding & GST | AFTER funding & 9% GST | ||
Singapore Citizens (SCs) and Permanent Residents (PRs) (Up to 50% funding) | S$1,200.00 | S$708.00 | |
Enhanced Training Support for SMEs (ETSS) | S$468.00 | ||
SCs aged ≥ 40 years old | |||
Funding Requirements:
- You must achieve a minimum of 75% attendance for each module.
- You must complete and pass all assessment components.Read more about funding here.
Credits :
- SkillsFuture Credit:(Opening Credit) : Applicable
- SkillsFuture Credit ($4000 Mid-Career Top-Up Credit): Not Applicable
- NTU/NIE Alumni Credits (up to S$1,600): Applicable
NTU/NIE alumni may utilise their $1,600 Alumni Course Credits. Click here for more information.
