Critical Thinking Online Training

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This online Critical Thinking training course can be used by all levels of employees and helps the user to better analyse and solve problems using basic logical methods.

The course will teach you how to logically structure your thoughts and properly justify your beliefs to others.

Critical thinking is a hugely important skill, not just for very grand ideas, but also for everyday life both at work and at home.

During this course you will learn the basics of Critical Thinking and what makes an argument good or bad and how it should be properly structured.

The course also offers you a handful of tips to get you started on improving your logical thinking and reasoning, so you can begin putting forward better, more well-constructed arguments.

This course is split into two sections

1. Understanding Arguments

An argument means stating a belief and then giving reasons as to why it should be believed by others.  Every argument can be broken down into these two separate components - evidence and belief.  The trick to thinking critically is being able to wade through the waffle to identify the belief and the evidence used to support it.

The whole point of an argument is to persuade, explain, or convince somebody and to bring them around to your way of thinking.

A good argument consists of your belief and the reasons or evidence behind it fitting together.  Evidence must be two things for the overall argument to work well. Firstly, it needs to be true. Secondly, the evidence must logically lead people to the belief being stated - or in other words, the evidence must prove or support the belief.

2. Logical Reasoning

In this section the course looks at four practical ways in which you can use critical thinking to strengthen your own arguments and make them more effective.  These are:-

Ask Questions - This is all about being prepared to be wrong and to follow the evidence with an open mind in order to find the truth.

Get Organised - This is all about organising the evidence to create a picture and then finding connections that lead you to a conclusion.

Evaluate - This is all about checking your information for assumptions and making sure your sources are reliable.

Draw Conclusions - Now you have your original belief, evidence that supports the belief, and you’ve evaluated that evidence to find any weaknesses, it’s time to start drawing conclusions.  This is all about following the evidence to its logical conclusion, even if it disproves your original belief.  If you find that along this journey your belief has changed, you’ve improved your critical thinking skills and you now have a new belief, supported by reliable evidence, ready to be shared with others.

Conclusion

If you’re interested in developing your Critical Thinking skills further, please see our additional content at the end of the course.  Downloadable PDFs offer you a recap on the main points of this course and there will also be a list of resources that you can use to explore this subject and learn more.

Users can complete the course in just 15 minutes and they will receive a printable certificate upon completion.

Course Sections

1. Understanding Arguments
2. Logical Reasoning

Discount available for multiple courses. Please contact us for details