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Critical Thinking And Reasoning
Challenging conventional thinking
The ability to think critically separates the effective professional from others. A person who can think fast and well has far more mental resources for higher performance than his peers who lack good thinking skills. When you are armed with critical thinking tools, many benefits inevitably follow – you are able to identify thinking flaws, differentiate between good and bad suggestions, communicate persuasively, manage difficult people or circumstances, and more.
Business Outcomes
Good thinking skills allow managers to improve their top and bottom-line outcomes by becoming better at problem solving, decision making and strategic planning. Critical thinking also improves productivity by saving time from “inhibiting” thinking outcomes and increases your profits through improved abilities in negotiation, persuasion and outsmarting your rivals.
Learning Outcomes
• Understand what critical thinking skills really are
• Understand rational vs. behavioral models of thought
• Understand critical thinking vs. IQ vs. creative thinking
• Identify and overcome common thinking biases and logical reasoning errors
• Apply critical thinking skills to business issues such as problem solving, decision making and strategic thinking
• Use critical thinking to enhance productivity and profitability
• Compare: Critical thinking vs. rationality vs. practical outcomes
• Understand how most managers think
• Thinking biases and errors: What most managers are not aware of
• Thinking in business contexts: When and why it often fails
• Business scenarios: How to think with maximum efficiency
• 3 major frameworks of critical thinking
Level 4 - Managers
| Category | SIM Member Fee (S$) | Non-member Fee (S$) |
| including GST | including GST | |
| Normal Fees | 963.00 | 1,123.50 |
| Early Bird Fees | 10% DISCOUNT OFF THE FEES ABOVE | |
| - terms & conditions applies ; please call to enquire. | ||
| Early Bird Fees closing date for the programme : | |||
| Programme Scheduled Date | Register by | ||
| 22 October 2018 | |||
| 14 & 15 March 2019 - | 31 January 2019 | ||
| 27 & 28 June 2019 - | 16 May 2019 | ||
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Enquiries : Kho Mei Yen - 6248 6137 | 62466746, khomeiyen@sim.edu.sg
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