Critical thinking helps students make better academic and work decisions
As a student you have to make several decisions about which college to join, courses to take and what areas to specialize in. Going forward you need to take decisions on what career to opt for. These are not easy decisions. Critical thinking enables you to gather impartial information, evaluate it and take decisions based on solid logical reasoning. This process of evaluation and thinking through results in better decision making.
World Economic Forum survey
A survey of employers by the World economy forum in 2020 about the most important skills for success in the workplace put Critical thinking amongst the top 5 skills necessary for success. Not only that, of the total of ten skills listed as skills essential for success, critical thinking was required for seven of them. In short, critical thinking is valued very highly in the workplace by employers, and students would be at an advantage if they acquired these skills.
A Foundational skill
Critical thinking is a foundational skill for decision making, problem solving, planning and strategy. The better are your thinking skills, better will be your decision making and problem solving processes. You will find yourself exercising good causal reasoning in your planning and strategy, and you will also find yourself consciously evaluating assumptions and implications of every conclusion, solution, plan or decision.
College students irrespective of Arts, Science or Engineering stream will find learning critical thinking useful. Critical thinking taught in our workshops is the theoretical foundation for answering critical thinking questions in several competitive exams such as GMAT and GRE. The argumentative essay structure and Critical thinking framework form the foundation for good written analysis and communication.
Critical Thinking gives you career essential skills
Increasingly more and more employers are looking not for employees with highly specialized academic skills, but those with good thinking and communication skills. Employees who learn quickly and can solve problems, think creatively, gather and analyze information meaningfully. These are the skills that you learn in a workshop on Critical Thinking.
What you will learn in a Critical Thinking Workshop
Learn essential and advanced concepts of Critical Thinking. You will learn about real life application of critical thinking in your academics, and at the workplace with case studies and examples. The workshop contents are designed to make a lasting impact on your critical thinking.
You will also learn about:
Developing Logically Persuasive Communications: Participants will learn to apply their Critical Thinking Skills to develop logically persuasive communications.
Using a Critical Thinking Framework : We introduce participants to a simple but powerful Critical Thinking Framework . It adapts itself to any situation that needs analysis. Frameworks aid systematic examination of any issue from different dimensions.
How people reason : People use several different types of reasoning to arrive at a decision or conclusion in any situation. The workshop will introduce you to key patterns of reasoning: Deductive Reasoning, Formal Inductive Reasoning,. Informal Inductive Reasoning, Inductive Analogies and Causal reasoning .
How to evaluate reasoning : We are often presented with situations where we need to reason to a decision/conclusion, or we need to evaluate the reasoning presented by others in arriving at a decision or conclusion. We discuss how to build sound arguments and evaluate arguments presented by others.
Fallacies and Cognitive biases : Logical fallacies abound in our reasoning at the workplace, and not being aware of them can lead to errors in reasoning and wrong decisions. All of us have some cognitive biases which can trip the effectiveness of our critical thinking.
Learning options: You can get one of your student clubs to contact us for a workshop, get your college to organize one.
