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Description: Solving problems. Evaluating options. Choosing direction. You need to be adept at critical thinking every day on the job. Learn how to tell the difference between effective and ineffective methods of thought. When you can show how your decisions are based on sound reasoning, you give yourself an unbeatable advantage as a leader or a rising star.
Critical Thinking provides step-by-step guidance to strengthen your reasoning skills. First you`ll see the difference between critical and non-critical thinking and non-critical thinking and then learn how to:
¢ Recognize different forms of deceptive reasoning
¢ Pinpoint the critical issues in any situation
¢ Categorize and evaluate types of arguments
¢ Develop and test hypotheses to form conclusive explanations
Contents: Part 1: Understanding Critical vs. Noncritical Thinking ¢ The Case for Critical Thinking ¢ Recognize Deceptive Reasoning ¢ Detect Emotional Manipulation ¢ Style of Noncritical Thinking ¢ Critical Thinking Styles ¢ Become a Critical Thinker ¢ Part 2: Recognizing and Evaluating Arguments ¢ Define Arguments ¢ Step 1: Pinpoint Issues ¢ Step 2: Identify Arguments ¢ Step 3: Seek Clarity ¢ Step 4: Understand Context ¢ Step 5: Find Credibility ¢ Step 6: Look for Consistency ¢ Step 7: Judge Arguments ¢ Present Ideas Powerfully ¢ Part 3: Developing and Evaluating Explanations ¢ Explanations vs. Arguments ¢ Formulate Explanations ¢ Element 1: Gather Information ¢ Element 2: Process Information ¢ Element 3: Develop Hypotheses ¢ Element 4: Test Hypotheses ¢ Ask Discovery Questions ¢ Challenge Assumptions ¢ Appendix ¢ Reviewing What You`ve Learned ¢ Appendix to Part 1 ¢ Appendix to Part 2 ¢ Appendix to Part 3
About the Author: Daniel Feldman is owner and president of Leadership Performance Solutions, Inc., an organizational development consulting company. Daniel provides a variety of senior level coaching and consulting services, including: leadership development, process facilitation, organizational review, team development, strategic and action planning, organizational design and restructuring, conflict resolution, process improvement, and change management. Daniel regularly coaches senior staff and facilitates senior level meetings and retreats.
Daniel has provided comprehensive executive coaching and facilitation services in the private sector for large and small companies in a variety of industries, including technology, healthcare, financial services, and has delivered organization-wide transformation interventions to federal agencies.
Daniel has designed, developed, and delivered a wide-range of human capital development training programs and is a Certified Professional Facilitator by the International Association of Facilitators. He is the author of The Handbook of Emotionally Intelligent Leadership and The Manager`s Pocket Guide to Workplace Coaching. Daniel received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Counseling Psychology from Virginia Commonwealth University and is a licensed psychologist.
ISBN 9788130918334
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Pages : 108
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