Critical Thinking for a Competitive Edge
In today’s business landscape, navigating complex challenges requires a structured approach. Our corporate training programs introduce a comprehensive critical thinking framework that guides teams in gathering and analyzing evidence, evaluating assumptions, and considering diverse perspectives. This framework ensures that participants can systematically assess problems, identify core issues, and develop well-founded solutions, leading to more effective decision-making.
Addressing Cognitive Biases and Fallacies
Good decision-making can be easily derailed by cognitive biases and logical fallacies. Our training helps participants recognize and mitigate these mental shortcuts and errors, which often lead to flawed conclusions. By understanding common biases and fallacies, teams can develop clearer, more objective thinking processes.
Distinguishing Rhetoric from Logic
Distinguishing Rhetoric from Logic Participants are also introduced to rhetorical devices, enabling them to differentiate between persuasive language and logical reasoning. This helps in identifying when arguments rely on emotion or manipulation rather than solid, logical foundations, fostering more rational and sound decision-making.
Corporate Training Workshop Modules
Informed and Objective Reasoning
Participants are introduced to various types of reasoning—deductive, inductive, causal, and reasoning by analogy—to enhance their analytical skills. Our training covers how to evaluate arguments for logical strength, coherence, and validity, while also teaching participants to critically assess their own reasoning. By understanding and applying these different forms of reasoning, teams ensure that sound logic underpins the inferences they make, leading to more reliable decisions and effective problem-solving.
Persuasive communication
Our training introduces participants to Aristotle's Triangle of Persuasion, emphasizing that effective business communication should be grounded in logic and credibility. We teach that persuasion in a professional context should primarily rely on rational arguments supported by credible sources, such as research studies, appeals to authority, or organizational credibility. Participants learn to structure their communication using Barbara Minto’s Pyramid Principle, ensuring that every claim is backed by clear, evidence-based premises. This logical approach can be applied across various forms of business communication, from analytical reports and presentations to strategic marketing content, ensuring clarity and persuasiveness.
Teaching Critical Thinking in Educational Institutions
Preparing Students for Future Challenges
Our critical thinking programs equip students with essential skills that enhance their academic performance and prepare them for future success. We work closely with educational institutions to offer workshops, faculty training, and educational resources that empower educators to teach critical thinking effectively. Our approach fosters analytical thinking, problem-solving abilities, and a mindset of inquiry, helping students excel in their studies and navigate complex situations in their future careers.
Comprehensive Solutions for Educators
We partner with educational institutions to provide a suite of resources that empower educators to teach critical thinking. From faculty training to course materials, presentations, and assessments, our solutions ensure that institutions can sustainably build their capacity to teach these essential skills.
Why is learning critical thinking imperative ?
Critical thinking is the foundation required for skilled problem solving and decision making. Better the critical thinking skills, better the decisions and problem solving processes. Without formal training in critical thinking, most decisions and problem solving processes will be found to be based on poor logic, fallacies, derailed by biases and lacking precision in thinking
We have the expertise
Starting 2013, we have taught and trained a few thousands. Participants today vouch for the effectiveness of what we teach and have been telling us that they use the critical thinking framework, logical persuasion structures and other concepts we teach across different subjects and scenarios. Our courses and workshops bring together all the disparate elements into a single holistic picture making it easy to remember and apply.
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Founder and Facilitator: A.S.Prasaad - Over 4000 trained across industry and education
A.S.Prasaad is a management graduate from IIMA (1981-83), Guest faculty at IIM Indore, IIM Rohtak, IIM Nagpur , IMT Ghaziabad. Naval War College and NIFT. Brings three decades of industry experience to the critical thinking training. Approaches and illustrates all concepts with business and real life examples. Uses case studies from Harvard library to train participants on problem solving and decision making. Teaching critical thinking since 2013. Linkedin profile: https://bit.ly/3hvDAbt