Online-Lecture: Сritical Thinking: How to Quickly Analyze Information and Make the Right Decisions?

«Most people would die sooner than think.

In fact, they do so.»

Bertrand Russel

In the modern world we are faced with the huge flow of information every day, where facts are intertwined with disinformation, and manipulative techniques are often disguised as logical arguments.

EBA Management Development Centre Team together with Iryna Patlakh invite you to take part in the Online-Lecture: Critical Thinking: How to Quickly Analyze Information and Make the Right Decisions?

During the online-lecture we will explore specific algorithms and frameworks that help us stay in a state of conscious perception of the information, make informed decisions, and avoid the influence of cognitive traps. We will learn to formulate our position and fond the vulnerabilities in the arguments of opponents, and we will practice the assessing the quality of information, using clear criteria and verification tools all in order to make communication more transparent and effective and make decisions based on logic, not emotions or other people’s beliefs.

Speaker: Iryna Patlakh:

• Founder and head of the training company «IMPACT» https://www.impact-training.info;
• PhD, certified business trainer, specialization – author’s business games and trainings on negotiations, sales, management, emotional intelligence;
• Consultant in the field of negotiations and sales;
• Graduate of the negotiation course «Successful Negotiation: Essential Strategies and Skills» (University of Michigan, USA);
• 19 years of teaching at Universities, 15 years of coaching practice, more than 150 corporate clients and 2000 individual clients with NPS 91%;
• Experience of commercial activity – 20 years.

Topics under discussion:

• 7 attitudes of critical thinking by D. Halpern.
• Criteria for the quality of information. Checking information for completeness and accuracy. Identifying distortions of information (generalizations, omissions, distortions, assumptions, guesses, etc.). Bonus: a checklist of Socratic questions to clarify the situation/information.
• Selective perception: how emotions, social roles, beliefs, expectations, and groupthink affect the process of critical thinking.
• Sophisms in communication: how not to be influenced by logically false statements.
• The Game «Gambling dispute»: practicing the skills of recognizing hidden influence in the process of communication and applying techniques and methods of critical thinking to make informed decisions.
• Cases, Q&A.

Registration is obligatory. To become a participant, please, click the “Register” button. Only the users of the EBA site can register at the event. Should you have any questions, please, write at [email protected] or call (044) 496-06-01.

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