Critical Thought & Process
In today’s society, many people experience information overload. We are bombarded with messages to believe various ideas, purchase things, support causes, and lead our lifestyle in a particular way. How do you know what to believe? How do you...
In today’s society, many people experience information overload. We are bombarded with messages to believe various ideas, purchase things, support causes, and lead our lifestyle in a particular way. How do you know what to believe? How do you separate the truth from the myths?
The answer lies in critical thinking skills. The ability to clearly reason through problems and to present arguments in a logical, compelling way has become a key skill for survival in today’s world. This course will give you some practical tools and hands-on experience with critical thinking and problem solving.
Learning Outcomes
• Define critical and non-critical thinking
• Identify your critical thinking style(s), including areas of strength and improvement
• Describe other thinking styles, including left/right brain thinking and whole-brain thinking
• Work through the critical thinking process to build or analyze arguments
• Develop and evaluate explanations
• Improve key critical thinking skills
• Use analytical thought systems and creative thinking techniques
• Prepare and present powerful arguments
Your Instructor
Dr. Clay Phillips is an organizational culture, soft skills, and mediation expert with more than 20 years of experience helping others develop stronger, more effective interpersonal skills. In his career he has trained more than 6,500 individuals in a variety of professional settings - all to compliment, develop, and train the best skills for effectively working and getting along with others. As a mediator he has mediating hundreds of court cases ranging from employment disputes, to personal injury, to product liability, to wrongful death, and highly contentious divorce and post-divorce disputes with great success. Dr. Phillips believes in people... he believes in the good nature of people and our desire to learn and improve our lives. His many years of experience as a mediator has taught him that the vast majority of people fall in this category, while very few do not. His training programs, workshops, seminars, and online courses have improved the lives of thousands, not just in the workplace but in every aspect of their lives. He hopes that you will find the information presented in this and other courses will be beneficial to you personally, individually, and professionally.