Business Outcomes

Good thinking skills allow managers to improve their top and bottom-line outcomes by becoming better at problem solving, decision making and strategic planning. Critical thinking also improves productivity by saving time from “inhibiting” thinking outcomes and increases your profits through improved abilities in negotiation, persuasion and outsmarting your rivals.

Learning Outcomes

• Understand what critical thinking skills really are
• Understand rational vs. behavioral models of thought 
• Understand critical thinking vs. IQ vs. creative thinking 
• Identify and overcome common thinking biases and logical reasoning errors
• Apply critical thinking skills to business issues such as problem solving, decision making and strategic thinking
• Use critical thinking to enhance productivity and profitability 

• Foundations and principles of critical thinking
• Compare: Critical thinking vs. rationality vs. practical outcomes
• Understand how most managers think
• Thinking biases and errors: What most managers are not aware of
• Thinking in business contexts: When and why it often fails
• Business scenarios: How to think with maximum efficiency
• 3 major frameworks of critical thinking