DEVELOPING CRITICAL THINKING ABILITIES
Cultivate multi-dimensional thinking, break away from conventional thought patterns, & creatively and effectively solve problems
- You fail to analyze the information in a logical and critical manner, which can lead to confusion and misguided decisions.
- You may overlook alternative perspectives, or you struggle to objectively understand and evaluate diverse viewpoints.
- Your ability to express ideas clearly, logically, and persuasively may be hindered.
OBJECTIVES
- Understand nature of critical thinking and explore factors that enhance systematic thinking
- Analyze and evaluate information and problems in work
- Develop systematic thinking and apply it to construct effective solutions/arguments
- Analyze problems and present your arguments in a critical and persuasive manner
- Skillfully apply critical thinking in debates to successfully achieve your objectives.
TARGET
- Staff, Team Leaders, Middle manager
CONTENT
Part 1: Overview of Critical Thinking
- The cognitive processing system
- Distinguish critical thinking and argument
- Characteristics of individuals with critical thinking
- Importance and benefits of critical thinking
- Barriers to critical thinking
- Critical thinking standards (CTS)
- Reasoning in critical thinking → Practicing: Identify topic sentence
Part 2: Process of developing critical thinking
- Process of critical thinking
- Identifying problem
- Methods of collecting and analyzing information
- Organizing information and structuring arguments
- Practice: structuring arguments in critical thinking
- Practice: analyzing arguments
- Identifying common fallacies
Part 3: Foundational skills for developing critical thinking
- Six levels of critical thinking
- Questioning skills – Importance and key points in critical discourse
- Questioning skill using Socratic Method
- Questioning skills using 5Whys Method
- Questioning skills using 5W1H Method
- Effective listening skill in critical discourse
- Effective emotion control skills in critical discourse
Part 4: Practicing critical thinking through DEBATE skills - Effective discourse
- Understanding debate: definition and workplace application
- Rules of effective debate
- Employing the ARES Model in debates – Argument, Reasoning, Evidences, Sources
- Debate contest: applying a structured process
- 5 steps for effective debating
Part 5: Summary and Action Plan
REFERENCE
Download “DEVELOPING CRITICAL THINKING ABILITIES" pamphlet (PDF version) here.
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