Critical thinking is essential for optimizing business models, communicating with clients and making overall better decisions.
This course will help participants to make sense of and better understand their own thought process and decision-making abilities by questioning every choice they make in their lives whether in personal, professional or civic sphere. It will lead them to be critical of and rationally analyse their own thoughts, behavior and action. During the course, participants will be encouraged to open their minds to the inherent prejudices and biases that govern every aspect of our being and inadvertently impact and govern our behavior, thoughts and actions. Besides covering the risks and other challenges to critical thinking, the course will also address the issue of how to apply principles and methods to address and overcome these very challenges. This course shall be hugely beneficial for participants for strategizing businesses, making right professional choices, while making all major decisions throughout their lives both at the work place or at home.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
- To identify barriers to effective critical thinking
- To recognize and challenge assumptions, objectively evaluate information, opinions, news, views and ideas to draw appropriate conclusions
- To stop taking things at face value and start asking probing questions
- To solve problems more effectively
- To enhance creativity and look at things from fresh/ different perspectives
- To improve perceptiveness, persuasiveness and effectiveness
- To improve decision-making skills by looking at ideas, issues and problems from multiple points of view
- Being open to change and always receptive to new ideas and possibilities
- To learn to reason and reflect before reacting emotionally to situations and problems
- To develop empathy and be less judgmental or critical of others, particularly
- competitors and critics
- To become better communicators, open-minded, less judgmental and confident
- To learn to sift fact from fiction and not be influenced by rhetoric, propaganda and efforts at manipulation
- To learn to think consciously and deliberately and skillfully in ways that transform oneself
- To learn and apply critical thinking in all areas of life
- To conduct a thorough self-SWOT analysis
- Planning ahead, setting realistic goals for the future
- Cultivate self-awareness through self-reflection
- Developing and practicing self control and the ability to anticipate and navigate setbacks
- To think of suitable business decisions , option/s based on one’s interests, strengths and weaknesses, chart a path towards the planned goals and to take calculated risks to attain it.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
CAREER AND LEADERSHIP READINESS:
- Better understanding of one’s own strengths and weaknesses and how to further develop your potential
- Ability to plan suitable career paths compatible with interests, whilst taking into consideration the abilities and skills required to succeed in that field
- Improved communication and presentation skills
- Enhanced preparedness for businesses, group discussions, writing SOPs (Statement of Purpose)
- Improved critical thinking and problem solving skills
- Heightened sense of responsibility and increased professionalism
ESSENTIAL SOCIAL AND LIFE SKILLS
Self-awareness and emotional intelligence
- A capacity for self-reflection and willingness to engage in self-appraisal open to objective and constructive feedback from supervisors, friends and peers
- Develop resilience along with the ability to negotiate difficult social situations, diffuse conflict and engage positively in meaningful debates
- Develop the skills to recognize your core values and motivations so as to search for and find a higher purpose in life
- Take charge of one’s life and stop blaming others for the situation one is in
- Overcome FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out)
Intercultural and ethical competency
- Adept at understanding, empathizing with and operating in social contexts and cultural environments other than those one is born into or familiar with
- Highly adaptable outside normal comfort zone
- Readily able to connect with people from diverse backgrounds i.e. ethnic, religious, racial or nationality based
TEACHING TOOLS
- Lectures, Tutorials and PowerPoint Presentations
- Role Plays, group discussions, open house, debates and brainstorming
- Assignments and case studies
- Individual and group exercises
- Use of movies, audio and videos clips, TED lectures and other audio-visual aids
- Assigned reading (online and library resources)
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Participation Fees
International Participants | $55 | Make the Payment in USD |
Zambian Participants | K650 | Make the Payment in Zambian Kwacha |
Malawian Participants | MK36,000 | Make the Payment in Malawian Kwacha |
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