Who Should Attend?
Critical thinking courses help participants evaluate evidence, identify biases, construct coherent arguments, and apply logical reasoning in both professional and personal contexts.
The ability to think critically and creatively is vital in today’s workplace – as a high value is placed on innovation. Balancing critical and creative thought stimulates new ideas and problem-solving while also evaluating feasibility.
Critical Thinking is a professional development course that will expand your creative thinking skills while simultaneously improving your ability to think critically in the workplace and everyday life.
You will learn to challenge ideas and assumptions, present solutions that justify decision-making processes and understand requirements relating to workplace practices.
On completion of this course, you will feel confident to deliver stronger problem-solving solutions in the workplace while leading others to develop their critical and creative thinking skills.
Program Content
This program will cover the following:
- Foundations of Critical Thinking
- Improving Your Critical Thinking Skills
- Arguments and Reasoning
- Evaluating
- Cognitive Biases
- Logical Fallacies
- Evidence
- Advanced Critical Thinking
Course Outcome
This training course will teach you how to think critically and creatively, share thoughts and opinions, use good judgment, and make decisions. You will be able to:
- Apply a range of models for critical thinking in making decisions which improve business results
- Leverage the ability to continuously appraise your decision-making process to allow room for new knowledge and tools
- Develop capability for solving everyday problems by using trusted techniques for meeting challenges head-on with a clear and well thought out approach
- Better define the causes of problems before they occur and learn to leverage creativity in assisting with problem solving
All participants will be provided with course notes and handouts, and will gain a Certificate of Completion.
Course Venue and Equipment
Course may be delivered in our training rooms in Cairns (subject to availability), or onsite at the client's premises.
Where courses are conducted onsite then a suitable venue complete with white board or butchers paper is to be provided by the client company. The venue shall have sufficient space for the participants to be seated comfortably for the duration of training. Any catering costs shall be borne by the client company. Please contact us to discuss alternate arrangements if there is any difficulty in providing these facilities and equipment.
Additional Costs and Expenses
Where the training is conducted outside the immediate Cairns area then additional costs will be applicable. Any airfares, travel, accommodation, meals and materials freight incurred in the provision of this training will be on-charged plus 10%. Mileage and traveling time will be charged at our standard rates. Please contact us for a formal quotation for courses conducted outside of Cairns.
How to Book into a Public Course
Click on our Training Calendar to see what dates are scheduled. Download an enrolment form (click the Enrol Now button), complete and email to our friendly team at to secure your place. Please advise which dates you will be attending.
If there are no dates in the Training Calendar, feel free to make contact, as we may be in the process of scheduling, and will be in the best position to find dates which suit you.
How to Book a Dedicated Course
Please note this course may be contextualised to your requirements, so please let us know if there is something specific you would like covered or have particular challenges within your organisation you would like addressed.
Contact our office if you would like to book a dedicated course. Course date will be scheduled at the time of booking and is subject to trainer availability.