Online-Development Programme on Critical Thinking

• Duration:07 - 15 November
• Language: Ukrainian
• Time: 11:00 - 14:00
• Pecularities:Four sessions of three hours each; November, 07-08; 14-15; 11:00-14:00
• Fee for EBA members:6800 UAH for EBA members
• Early Registration for EBA members:6200 UAH till October, 30 for EBA members
• Place: Will be online
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Nowadays critical thinking and information hygiene are the skills that ensure effective and high-quality work, moreover it is crucial for operating in the modern info space. This skill helps to overcome prejudice in decision making and choices, to find alternative and non-standard ideas, to process information more effectively.

EBA Management Development Centre together with Olga Shapovalova is launching a renewed Online-Development Programme on Critical Thinking, as a result of which each participant will receive:

• Understanding the essence and components of critical thinking;
• Skill level assessment and tools for its development;
• The list and main characteristics of cognitive biases in decision making and information analysis;
• Experience in using critical thinking techniques;
• Principles of information hygiene in the modern infospace.
• Understanding the steps and motivation further skill development.

The interactive training programme allows you not only to learn more about the skill but also to experience offered tools in cases and training exercises.

TARGET AUDIENCE

• Top managers and department managers;
• Sales managers, marketing and PR managers;
• Business development managers.

SYLLABUS

MODULE 1

Critical thinking components:

• Individual assessment of critical thinking skill.
• Two systems of thought by D. Kahneman: how judgments and conclusions are made.
• How to develop critical thinking on daily basis.

Logical thinking:

• Laws of logic and logical paradoxes in simple words.
• How and why are the laws of logic violated?
• Conclusions and considerations. Induction and deduction.
• Training of logical thinking on daily examples and logic problems.

Cognitive biases:

• 4 Main causes: information excess, difficulty in building meanings, need for quick response, remembering information.
• Testing for susceptibility to cognitive biases.
• Examples of cognitive distortions from the real life. Analysis of the most common.
• How to resist cognitive distortions and minimize their impact?

Control of emotions:

• The influence of emotions on decision making process.
• Identification and controlling of emotional state.
• Intellectual empathy. Developing emotional intelligence.
• Resistance and resilience – how to work under stress pressure.

MODULE 2

Working with information:

• Information perception channels.
• Test for detecting the dominant type of information perception.
• Types of information processing: analysis, synthesis, systematization, evaluation and interpretation.

Principles of information hygiene:

• Criteria for the information selection.
• Information sources management.
• How cognitive distortions affect perception.
• Exercise: “Headlines”.

Information delivering:

• Structure and types of argumentation. Criterias of qualitative argumentation.
• Technique of rational-emotional argumentation.
• Life hacks how to be more convincing.
• Working with counterarguments.
• Written argumentation.
• Exercise “Point of view defense”.

Problem solving and decision making:

• Stereotypes in decision making and problem solving.
• Problem solving algorithm.
• Finding a cause of problem.
• A tool for a problem-task transformation.
• Practice of evaluation tools and decision-making methods.

Creative thinking and pattern minimization:

• Creativity principles and ways of its daily development.
• Techniques for ideation by teams and individuals.
• Creative workshop.

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