Who is this training for?
For leaders, managers and employees, who want to enhance their critical thinking skills.
Consult this training
What you will learn in the virtual workshop:
- you will understand how to understand critical thinking in your roles,
- you will learn about the four phases of critical thinking,
- you will learn the most common mistakes in our thinking and how to make them neutral,
- you will gain the essence of strategic and critical thinking.
Advantages of the virtual training
- guarantee of interactive participation in training with the use of online engaging tools
- half-day workshops allow flexible organization of the workday
- relationships building with remote colleagues through joint participation in training
- participation in the workshop from anywhere, all you need is access to a computer
Virtual workshop program
Module 1
Foundations of critical thinking
- How do we understand critical thinking in our roles?
- The four phases of critical thinking:
- Phase 1. Execute – the foundation of critical thinking
- Execution combined with critical thinking – the power of suggestions and how to use them effectively
- The questions to be asked to develop the power of critical thinking at this stage
- Phase 2. Synthesize – the most important competence not to get overwhelmed by the amount of information and changes
- Identifying what’s important – how to refer to your personal or organizational needs?
- How to develop the muscle of synthesizing – practical activities
Module 2
Mastering critical thinking
- Phase 3. Recommend – the strategic mindset in action
- How not to get discouraged when recommending
- Recommending alternatives – how to balance the number of recommendations with the needs?
- Phase 4. Generate – how to convert visions and ideas into a feasible plan?
- Prioritizing the possible actions and letting go of impossible ones
- The most common mistakes in our thinking and how to make them neutral
- The essence of strategic and critical thinking – how can this skill set be applied in my role
- Developing my strategic thinking competence – planning the way forward
Project flow
Diagnosis and prework
- in-take interview with the project sponsor
- diagnosis of participants’ needs (online questionnaire and calls)
- prework for participants (material to watch, read or listen to)
Virtual workshops
- training divided into 2 workshops, 3,5 hours each
- interactive working methods: discussions, chat, virtual board, questionnaires, videos, case studies, breakout rooms, external tools (Mentimeter, Miro, Funretro)
- participants: up to 12 people
Summary and follow up
- training materials for participants
- access to the ETTA knowledge base
- follow up call with the project sponsor