The Role of Critical Thinking in Organizations

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Overview/Description
In the organizational arena, applied critical thinking skills provide an essential foundation for all effective planning, problem-solving, and decision-making activities. Employees who can analyze and reason consistently and proficiently furnish a cost-efficient resource that results in a distinctive competitive advantage. Workers who are skeptical of quick fixes and operational dogma pay attention and generate productive ideas. They are intellectually competent to chart new directions. This course introduces the basic concepts, features, and skills associated with critical thinking and explains the roles and propagation of critical thinking in the workplace.

Target Audience
supervisors, managers, directors, executives, team leaders, project leaders, and coaches

Expected Duration (hours)
4.0

Lesson Objectives

Introducing Critical Thinking

recognize the benefits of employing critical thinking in an organizational setting.

match critical thinking elements with descriptive examples of elements.

determine which critical thinking element is being applied in an organizational problem-solving scenario.

match techniques that can enhance creative thinking with descriptions.

select correct examples of criteria indicators that meet necessary conditions for reliability.

determine whether conditions occurring in a work scenario meet the requirements for reliable criteria indicators.

Learning to Think Critically

recognize the benefits of employing critical thinking at work.

match key analytical aspects of critical thinking with examples.

associate assumption styles with examples.

identify the steps of argument analysis.

apply steps for analyzing a written or verbal argument to determine if it is convincing.

Workplace Resources for Thinking and Learning

recognize the benefits of applying critical thinking in the workplace.

match typical workplace applications of critical thinking with examples of each.

select an appropriate application of critical thinking to use in various business and organizational situations.

distinguish situational examples of managerial critical thinking processes.

employ the appropriate managerial critical thinking process when responding to a variety of business situations.

identify techniques for modeling critical thinking at work.

infer whether an appropriate critical thinking modeling technique is being employed in interactive workplace scenarios.

choose organizational attributes that encourage critical thinking in the workplace.

Course Number:
PD0251