Critical thinking requires skills in three different capabilities.
Our workshop are structured to cover all three capabilities critical thinking requires — logical reasoning, structured problem-solving, and the barriers that quietly derail decisions.
How the training works
The training is structured around the three capabilities of critical thinking. Each programme covers all three, or a selected combination, depending on your objectives and audience — over a half day to two days, with follow-up sessions on request.
The approach is interactive and discovery-based : concepts are surfaced through examples, scenarios, and hands-on application rather than lecture.
What participants learn
Three modules, each closing a different failure mode in everyday business thinking.
Logical reasoning
The four types of reasoning — each with its own structure and its own ways of going wrong — plus how to weigh the strength of an argument and the credibility of the claims, sources, and studies offered as evidence. It also covers building logically persuasive communication using Minto's Pyramid Principle.
Take away: the tools to evaluate reasoning in proposals, vendor pitches, and reports — and to construct well-reasoned arguments of your own.
Structured problem-solving & decision-making
A complete, generic framework that forces every dimension of an issue into view — assumptions, implications, stakeholder perspectives, and implementation risks. Participants apply it to a case study, working from problem definition through to a recommended decision.
Take away: a structured, repeatable process for problems and decisions that leaves no dimension unexamined.
Barriers to critical thinking
The four categories of barrier that derail thinking no matter how sound the reasoning — and how to recognise them in your own thinking and in others' arguments, then sidestep them or build mitigation into how decisions are made.
Take away: the ability to spot manipulation and self-deception before they shape a decision.
What participants take away
The Critical Thinking Field Guide
A complete, concise reference covering all three capabilities, written specifically for the working professional. Either built into the workshop pricing or procured separately through Amazon — so the method stays on the desk long after the session ends.
A critical thinking assessment
Access to one assessment patterned on the Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal — a benchmark of where participants stand.
A shared language for how your teams think
Beyond individual skill-building, the frameworks become a common standard across teams for how problems are examined and decisions are justified. That is where the return compounds — in the quality and defensibility of the decisions your organisation makes every day.
Organisations we've worked with
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A one-page summary of what the programme covers, what participants take away, and who we've worked with.
A.S. Prasad
Visiting faculty · Speaker · Trainer · Author
A management graduate of IIM Ahmedabad (1981–83) with three decades in marketing and senior management — Disney character franchising, FMCG, software distribution, and IT services. Drawing on that experience, in 2013 he designed this critical thinking program to make the discipline genuinely useful for work and life — shifting it away from purely academic theory toward practical application. He has since trained over 4,000 executives and students at corporations and premier institutions across India.
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