Developing Fundamental Critical Thinking Skills





You may not need an MBA to succeed in the corporate arena, but regardless of position or industry, you do need to be able to analyze, reason, and communicate effectively. These and other critical thinking skills are increasingly consequential as organizational planning and decision making become more distributed and reliant on written and verbal communication factors. Developing Fundamental Critical Thinking Skills coaches you through the acquisition of an array of critical skills that can help you improve your information processing and delivery agility. You also will learn how to maximize your inferential and evaluative competence to achieve better planning and decision-making efficiencies. Improving your critical thinking skills will increase your performance value to any organization.


supervisors, managers, directors, executives, team leaders, project leaders, and coaches


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Analytical Skills

  • recognize the benefits of honing analytical skills.
  • match defining characteristics of effective intellectual curiosity with examples.
  • differentiate between statement mode applications employed in various hypothetical business situations.
  • employ point-of-view language cues to accomplish specified purposes in hypothetical business communications.

    • Reasoning Skills

  • recognize the professional benefits of improving your reasoning skills.
  • select examples of methods that can be used to evaluate data.
  • associate types of faulty reasoning due to insufficient support with examples.
  • associate types of faulty reasoning due to misdirection with examples.
  • apply appropriate inductive reasoning methods to generate forecasts in hypothetical business scenarios.

    • Critical Reading Skills

  • recognize the value of refreshing your critical reading skills.
  • match words and expressions that contribute to obfuscating language with examples.
  • match recall techniques with examples.


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